Are You Feeling Down? | Boethius and The Consolation of Philosophy
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- The philosopher Boethius was imprisoned and sentenced to death for speaking out in someone’s defense. He had a family, wealth, and status, and he lost it all. While in prison, he writes The Consolationsof Philosophy in which he imagines that Lady Philosophy comes to him in his time of need to provide philosophical comforts to ease his mind.
She starts by attacking our ideas surrounding fortune. We might be emotionally swayed by good fortune, but it’s in the nature of fortune to change. Good fortune will eventually turn to bad fortune and our emotions will take a hit as a result. So instead of lamenting the bad fortune you’re going through, see it as an opportunity to free yourself from the shackles of fortune.
Lady Philosophy also highlights the benefits of bad fortune. Bad fortune teaches us new lessons by presenting us with adversity and challenges. It also lets us know who our true friends are, which is information that seems pretty invaluable.
Finally, Lady Philosophy touches on 5 presumed “goods” that people desire and explains how they cannot be the absolute good. If you’re feeling down as a result of losing one of these goods, her wisdom might be of comfort to you. #philosophy #boethius #consolationofphilosophy
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This book is criminally underrated in the modern age
I feel like Lady Philosophy's quote on Riches can be said also for addictions. A completely unrelated topic, but still applicable! This was a nice video by the way, made me feel better!
Doing a large author study for my AP Literature class on Tolkien - needed to relate his writing with the parallels also found in Boethius’ writing. Thank you so much for the sum up
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This channel is freaking awesome. Getting me a copy of Boethius now.
Thanks for your support! I hope you enjoy Boethius
After watching a lecture on Boethius and getting a grasp of the appalling magnitude of hype from different sources all in accordance with one another on the internet. Surrounding This Book. I went ahead downloaded a copy off the internet.
Thanks man... Trick me with your wit and humor. Into reading the most beautiful piece of writing I've ever seen in my life.
Anyways in-between bouts of crying. (You made me fuckin cry man!!! Asshole!) I'm going to finish up this book.😢
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I wonder if in the bodily pleasures section she also meant that we fear losing what we have- if I go my whole life appreciating the sound of life and music, I may also, to an equal extent, fear losing it.
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I wish fortune was better defined. I think the larger question is what do we have control over vs not. I’m guessing it would be easier to get over something if you believed you did not have control over it.
Thanks Pat!
The background music sometimes sounds too loud in your videos.
Dude you really hit on something here. Are you aware of how intertwined this book is in the contemporary Humanities and philosophy of education? It's no joke.
After getting started on Boethius I took a break.
So naturally I watched a lecture on it from this "Ralston College" thing right. Really good lecture. Dudes talking about Plato's Theory of Recollection and how it applies to Boethius Consolations of Philosophy.
Okay fine.
That was just the tip of the iceberg. Holy sheeeeeeeeiiiiit.
Next thing I know I'm watching Cambridge philosophy lectures on the ontological existence of love. Jordan Peterson interviewing Roger Penrose. Jordan Peterson interviewing Richard Dawkins.
Jordan Peterson asking Richard Dawkins about what he thinks about Roger Penrose's Platonism.
Then I'm off reading Plato and Xenophon again. Formulating my theory on Plato's metaphysics, ontology and ethics in education.
Posting my ideas to a philosophy teacher in California CZcams channel. To get some feedback and criticism. He's into logic, philosophy of science and Thomas Aquinas. The criticism I back about my thoughts on how Plato finds the form of the beautiful. That's awesome! So happy you read the Philebus like I said you should!!!
Only I didn't read the fucking Philebus. I read book 4 of Plato's Republic. Maybe Plato makes the same argument in Philebus as in the Republic? I have no fucking clue. So either the philosophy teacher is trolling me. Or... Wgaf moving on.
So moving on. This Ralston College stuff piques my interests. I watch one thier videos. A polymath talking for 2 hours on examples of the affinity problem or argument from opposites from Plato.
Only here's the thing. They don't mention Plato. But every scientist mathematician philosopher from Democritus to fucking Albert Einstein. Then back down again to Heraclitus.
-No mention of Plato.- There's Aristotle and the Sophists. No Plato no Socrates.
Then I get really paranoid. And I go to Ralston College's website. A brand new school on a mission to save the Humanities. Than I notice the President of the school.
And I'm like oh shit! That's the moderator from the fucking Roger Penrose Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins debate!
WTF?!?
Than I read his mission statement for Ralston College. Absolutely beautiful. Wow. Just WOW
Then I notice something else. The first book this dude wrote.
The Consolations of Boethius
😱😱😱😱🥺🥺😱😱😱🥺🥺🥺😨🥺😱😱😱😱 AAAAAAAAAARRRGHHHHH
Waaaaaaaaaat The Fuck?!?!
OMG
I have a headache.
Plato and Pythagoras's Theory of motherfuckin Recollection. Holy shit balls. It just doesn't get any more real than that.
Start out with the Consolations of Philosophy. And I'm right back to Consolations of Boethius.
Like some kind of Transcendent theory of the Self. Some weird metaphysical forms shit going on here. I did not just cover an entire 48 hours of bashing my brains in with a breath of philosophy stretching all the known ideas of the Western Tradition.
To just wind back up exactly where I started. That's insane.
Man what a wild coincidence lol
Now that I've had a night to rest on it. It is a coincidence at first and then it isn't. Because it's perfectly explainable, now that it's a new day, I'm refreshed and had some delicious caffeinated beverage.
Me seeing a coincidence in all that stuff. Really just simply belies an underlying theme in the Humanities sciences and philosophy of education in general. And that is this temporal, abstract and physical. Sort of Tripartite (3-part) formula for, communicating, describing and reproducing truth. An internal sort of self editing software that we use to get a point across.
You see it all over the place. Like for example two diametrical opposites such as Sir Roger Penrose and Bishop Robert Barron. It goes without saying what those two individuals disagree upon. But what they do seem agree upon or at least have in common?!?!?
Surprisingly, is that 3 part self editing software/hardware is was making a fuss about earlier.
And I'm not talking out of school either about this stuff. Listen to that Jordan Peterson & Richard Dawkins dialogue all the way through to the end.
Peterson literally runs out the clock till the end of the interview. To where him and Richard Dawkins are walking out side the door. Just to ask Richard Dawkins if this shit is real or not.
I was literally sitting on the edge of my fucking seat biting my fucking finger nails off. That was such a fucking wild interview.
Holy shit.
Feeling down cause I still need an idea to write this paper on.
What are your options?
@@PhilosophyToons I can choose anything I just don't know what to choose lol.
My emotions are in the trash.
How did you get the number of that attractive person from class? Tell me your secrets.