Boethius

Introduction

Life, intellectual milieu, and works

Boethius's project: the logical translations and commentaries

The logical textbooks and topical reasoning: types of argument

The Opuscula Sacra: metaphysics, theology, and logical method

The Consolation: the argument of books I-V.2

The Consolation, V.3-6: divine prescience, contingency, eternity

Interpreting the Consolation

Boethius's influence in the Middle Ages.