02850nam 2200529 a 450 991097391370332120251116214729.01-280-47311-897866104731130-19-803064-91-4237-5760-2(CKB)1000000000460465(StDuBDS)AH24085405(SSID)ssj0000085625(PQKBManifestationID)11120974(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085625(PQKBWorkID)10025341(PQKB)11088605(MiAaPQ)EBC3052086(EXLCZ)99100000000046046520020605d2003 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrBoethius /John Marenbon1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20031 online resource (304 p.)Great medieval thinkersBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-513406-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-235) and indexes.Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations of Boethius's Works -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Life, Intellectual Milieu, and Works -- 3 Boethius's Project: The Logical Translations and Commentaries -- 4 The Logical Textbooks and Topical Reasoning: Types of Argument -- 5 The Opuscula Sacra: Metaphysics, Theology, and Logical Method -- 6 The Consolation: The Argument of Books I-V.2 -- 7 The Consolation, V.3-6: Divine Prescience, Contingency, Eternity -- 8 Interpreting the Consolation -- 9 Boethius's Influence in the Middle Ages -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- H -- I -- J -- P -- T -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.This accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius offers a survey of the philosopher's life and work, going on to explicate his theological method. It devotes separate chapters to his various arguments and traces his influence on the work of such thinkers as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius. After a survey of Boethius's life and work, Marenbon explicates his theological method, and devotes separate chapters to his arguments about good and evil, fortune, fate and free will, and the problem of divine foreknowledge. Marenbon also traces Boethius's influence on the work of such thinkers as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.Great medieval thinkers.189Marenbon John539136MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973913703321Boethius1097240UNINA