--- title: "Book 3 Chapter 1: Preparing to Know the Good" date: 2020-07-19T21:39:59Z series: "The Consolation of Philosophy" image: img/1295493-1593966149384-fbe3d151bfd13.jpg enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-07-05_boethius-book-3-chapter-1.mp3 draft: false --- {{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-07-05_boethius-book-3-chapter-1.mp3" >}} Boethius beseeches Philosophy to continue. She promises to lead him to true happiness. Philosophy then prepares Boethius for his turn toward the truth. Aristotle and Plato are untwined in the beginning of this book, as Aristotle’s method of imminence gives way to Plato’s method of transcendence.