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title: "Book 2 Chapter 5: The Golden Age"
date: 2020-06-14T22:22:28Z
series: "The Consolation of Philosophy"
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All the gifts of Fortune are external; they can never truly be our own. Man cannot find his good in worldly possessions. Riches bring anxiety and trouble. — Analysis: Aristotle, the Summum Bonum, and a summary of the false goods. A reading from **Hesiod’s Works and Days**, and a comparison to Rousseau’s noble savage, and the “General Will” as a distortion of the Catholic Holy Spirit.