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Ideas of Boethius, by Text
[Roman, 480 - 524, Born in Rome. Taught by Symmachus. Spent much of later life in prison. Died at Pavia.]
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Librium de interpretatione editio secunda
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PL64 462d
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p.111
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14665
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We can call the quality of Plato 'Platonity', and say it is a quality which only he possesses
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517
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Second Commentary on 'Isagoge'
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p.49
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15035
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If universals are not separate, we can isolate them by abstraction [Panaccio]
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518
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Concerning the Trinity
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Ch. 4
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p.242
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16661
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There are two sorts of category - referring to things, and to circumstances of things
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520
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The Consolations of Philosophy
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4, prose 6
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p.334
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23308
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Reasoning relates to understanding as time does to eternity [Sorabji]
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I.IV
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p.44
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5752
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Where does evil come from if there is a god; where does good come from if there isn't?
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I.VI
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p.50
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5753
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The regular events of this life could never be due to chance
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II.VI
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p.70
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5754
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You can't control someone's free mind, only their body and possessions
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III.I
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p.79
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5756
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Happiness is a good which once obtained leaves nothing more to be desired
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III.X
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p.101
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5757
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God is the supreme good, so no source of goodness could take precedence over God
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III.XI
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p.104
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5758
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God is the good
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III.XI
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p.105
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5759
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Varied aims cannot be good because they differ, but only become good when they unify
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III.XII
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p.110
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5760
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The power through which creation remains in existence and motion I call 'God'
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III.XII
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p.112
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5761
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God can do anything, but he cannot do evil, so evil must be nothing
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IV.II
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p.119
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5762
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The wicked want goodness, so they would not be wicked if they obtained it
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IV.II
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p.120
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5763
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The bad seek the good through desire, but the good through virtue, which is more natural
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IV.III
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p.124
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5765
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The reward of the good is to become gods
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IV.III
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p.125
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5764
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When people fall into wickedness they lose their human nature
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IV.VI
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p.141
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5766
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If you could see the plan of Providence, you would not think there was evil anywhere
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V.6
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p.376
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16692
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Divine eternity is the all-at-once and complete possession of unending life
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V.II
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p.149
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5767
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Rational natures require free will, in order to have power of judgement
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V.III
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p.150
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5768
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God's universal foreknowledge seems opposed to free will
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V.III
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p.151
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5769
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Does foreknowledge cause necessity, or necessity cause foreknowledge?
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V.III
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p.153
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5770
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Rewards and punishments are not deserved if they don't arise from free movement of the mind
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V.IV
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p.156
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5771
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Knowledge of present events doesn't make them necessary, so future events are no different
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