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show notes for boethius
2021-12-31 23:06:37 +00:00
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title: "Book 2 Chapter 6: The Powerful and the Rational"
date: 2020-06-21T22:07:44Z
series: "The Consolation of Philosophy"
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enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-06-07_boethius-book-2-chapter-6.mp3
book2 chapters 6 and 7
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show notes for boethius
2021-12-31 23:06:37 +00:00
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book2 chapters 6 and 7
2022-01-01 20:16:06 +00:00
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High place without virtue is an evil, not a good. Power is an empty name. Philosophy lectures Boethius on the false promise of power, and **George Orwell** answers her on whether the powerful can indeed get to the rational man (I read a **passage from Orwell’s 1984**). Happiness, honour, power, and the relation between the virtuous and the powerful.
show notes for boethius
2021-12-31 23:06:37 +00:00