PHL244H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Happy Life, Vasubandhu, The Good Life
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Lecture 12: boethius on human nature and the good (the consolation of philosophy 4. Ancius manlius severinus boethius (~475 ~526 ad) Born into the twilight of the roman empire: when the last roman empire is deposed order is dissolving, the ostrogoth are in control in this region (new world order) Bridge between ancient greek and medieval philosophy: represents two worlds ancient greek and new christian latin west. Tra(cid:374)slated aristotle"s logi(cid:272)al (cid:449)orks i(cid:374)to lati(cid:374), (cid:449)rote logi(cid:272) te(cid:454)t(cid:271)ooks: he was really into plato and aristotle his writing is very similar. Phl content can be connected: did translations and logic (aristotle) Aimed to produce commentaries on all of plato and aristotle: no one has succeeded to do this but he did(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake it to his goal. Christian philosopher and theologian: doing theology in a christian perspective, latin western church and eastern greek orthodox church bridge, he wants to bring logical rigor into these debates (nature of god)
