Lewis remarked of Plato’s Symposium, no one should be allowed to die without having read it-or at least no student ought to graduate without having encountered the magnum opus of Saint Severinus Manlius Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius is an unjustly neglected masterpiece. The articulation of Platonic thought furnished an occasion for Boethius to tacitly meditate upon and be nourished by his own Christian faith, without having to draw explicit parallels in “The Consolation of Philosophy.” As a robust Christian Platonist, Boethius saw a profound resonance between the truths of Platonic philosophy and Christian faith.
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