Author : Boethius (of Dacia)
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888442802
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)
Book Synopsis On the Supreme Good ; On the Eternity of the World ; On Dreams by : Boethius (of Dacia)
Download or read book On the Supreme Good ; On the Eternity of the World ; On Dreams written by Boethius (of Dacia) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first work Boethius offers a purely philosophical discussion of man's highest good and, in the course of doing this, presents the life of the philosopher as the highest kind of life. In the second treatise, he considers in detail an issue which was much contested by Christian thinkers of his day: Can philosophical reasoning prove that the world began to be? Or does it rather show that the world is eternal, i.e. that it did not begin to be? In the third he offers a highly naturalistic explanation of dreams. Only within carefully defined limits will he acknowledge that dreams can give us any kind of knowledge of future events.