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Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place;...
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Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place; and he will contemplate him as he is.
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2 JAN 2022 · I am no longer using Anchor.FM or any other third-party service as a platform for my content. If you want to continue with the Boethius podcast series, or any of the other things I podcast, then please go have a look at my personal blog, where I've begun hosting all my audio content.
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This account will remain open for the next few months, but will eventually be deleted. So, save these links somewhere.
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10 JAN 2021 · Lady Philosophy explains how the righteous never lack their reward, nor the wicked their punishment. We take a trip with Odysseus to the Island of the Winds, and find ourselves transformed into swine, by Cerce.Â
My Boethius Publication Schedule can be found here.
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27 DEC 2020 · In today's episode, Lady Philosophy lays out for us, the first of four arguments attempting to defang the problem of evil, and in the process, we discover that evil people simply don't exist!
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13 DEC 2020 · The mystery of the seeming moral confusion. Philosophy engages to make this plain, and to fulfill her former promise to the full. Boethius takes on The Gorgias. Let's see what he comes up with!
Librivox version of The Gorgias can be found here.
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6 DEC 2020 · This week, we take a momentary pause from the text, to ponder the origins of Lady Philosophy. What you will discover in this podcast, is a nexus of faith, reason, religion, and philosophy, in the books of Proverbs and Wisdom, and a powerful symbol who's meaning goes far beyond the superficial anthropomorphism of philosophy in human form.
I couldn't think of a good way to work in the famous passage from Acts 17, but that's hovering in the background of this, as well...
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29 NOV 2020 · Boethius and Lady philosophy confront the problem of evil, and Boethius laments the slipping of the vision of the true good just out of his sight.
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22 NOV 2020 · Philosophy and Boethius rehearse the final arguments for the unity of happiness, and the good, and Philosophy makes the case for The Good as the Telos of all things. The analysis of this episode includes an extended clip from Plato's Phaedo.
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15 NOV 2020 · We have reached the summit, and Lady Philosophy now lays out the full case defending Divine Unity along Neo-Platonic lines of reasoning. This is going to be an intensely technical episode, but if you make it all the way to the end, I have a treat in store for you. Did you know that Boethius wrote his own music? We don't know absolutely for sure what it sounded like, but you may enjoy "Bella quis quinis", a work by Boethius himself.
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8 NOV 2020 · We reach the end of the journey to the true good. Philosophy and Boethius have a brief dialogue on the false good, and turn toward the true good. Philosophy ends the dialogue with a prayer to the source of the One True Good (God).Â
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1 NOV 2020 · Lady Philosophy concludes her case against false happiness with a brief bullet-point recap, and a verse to remind us not to spend our lives looking for things where they cannot be found.
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Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place;...
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Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place; and he will contemplate him as he is.
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