Boethius
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The ecstasies of attraction are sublimated into their long conversations about Boethius and Hildegard von Bingen, or about the suddenly debatable issues of contraception and clerical celibacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The text starts out with a bitter Boethius complaining of his fall from power to Lady Philosophy.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
If Rafa’s got anything about him, he’ll let Boethius do the team talk tonight.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2021
Some thousand years later, the Roman philosopher Boethius wrote that musica universalis—the “music of the spheres”—was an inaudible, organizing force in the universe.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2019
Boethius is not remembered for his math but for his Consolation of Philosophy, a tract in which he comforts himself with Aristotelian-style philosophy.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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