The Consolation of Philosophy
- Ariane Bilheran
- Jul 7, 2024
- 8 min read
La Lucarne d'Ariane Bilheran, in Antipresse 449 - 07 juillet 2024.
If there is one work that I have been sharing without moderation in my "Knowledge of the Ancients" workshops since 2021, it is Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiæ. I believe that this masterpiece is indeed one of those that most helps us to face life's misfortunes, and it seems urgent to me to rehabilitate it to the rightful notoriety that befits it.
The Consolatio Philosophiæ is, as its name suggests, part of the consolatio, an argumentative literary genre whose purpose is to console the afflicted who have suffered a misfortune: most often the death of a loved one. The consolatio is a remedial, literary, poetic, philosophical, moral and spiritual work, which aims to heal through words, often in a fictional dialogue between the afflicted and their consoler.
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