Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
Feb 13, 2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
0195134060
ISBN-13
9780195134063
Description
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.
foreknowledge. Marenbon also traces Boethius's influence on the work of such thinkers as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.