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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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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.