Point Of View In Boethius The Consolation Of Philosophy

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The Consolation of Philosophy is written by Boethius while in prison awaiting for his execution. It starts out with Boethius talking to lady philosophy and she starts to tell him about the philosophical view on Christianity. She begins by explaining that the vagaries of Fortune visit everyone and she has came there to "cure" him of all his suffering and sickness he is feeling through this troubling time. Boethius's view is more of a philosophical point of view meaning that he uses reasoning and experience to base his view of God. He doesn’t understand why bad things happen to good people and why good things happen to bad people. Boethius had a hard time understanding that God would allow good people to have a troubling life. Boethius has a …show more content…

Agnes at Zwolle. Kempis approaches Christianity with the idea and belief that with everything you do, you should try and do so as Christ has done. He has more of an action approach meaning that your understanding and life after death is based off of whether or not you act like Christ. He explains In these books about how god looked about and over his people. By this it is telling you how you need to see you Christian experience and how they need to live there life and follow the way and life god wants you to live.

Boethius and Kempis have very different views as you can tell in the previous paragraphs, one way they are different is their view on Christianity. Boethius has more of an philosophical view on Christianity while Kempis has more of an action approach.

Boethius was wrongfully accused of treason and imprisoned, leading him to question as to why God would allow bad things to happen to good people and how you can not be completely happy and there is never true happiness. The fear of losing happiness destroys happiness. "No man is so completely happy that something somewhere does not clash with his condition. It is the nature of human affairs to be fraught with anxiety; they never prosper perfectly and they never remain constant" Boethius (30). This quote represents the fear of losing happiness destroys happiness in my

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