On the supreme good ; On the eternity of the world ; On dreams
By: Boethius of Dacia ; translation and introduction by John F. Wippel.
Contributors: Wippel, John F.
Series: Mediaeval sources in translation,; 30
Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; Distributed outside North America by E.J. Brill
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont. Canada; Leiden, Netherlands
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Ethics, Medieval.; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) -- Early works to 1800.; Faith and reason -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Cosmology, Medieval.; Eternity -- Early works to 1800.; Dreams -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: On the supreme good.; On the eternity of the world.; On dreams.
Description: In the first work Boethius offers a purely philosophical discussion of man's highest good and, in the course of doing this, presents the life of the philosopher as the highest kind of life. In the second treatise, he considers in detail an issue which was much contested by Christian thinkers of his day: Can philosophical reasoning prove that the world began to be? Or does it rather show that the world is eternal, i.e. that it did not begin to be? In the third he offers a highly naturalistic explanation of dreams. Only within carefully defined limits will he acknowledge that dreams can give us any kind of knowledge of future events.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [79]-83.
Translation of: De summo bono; De aeternitate mundi; De somniis.
Includes indexes.