Boèce or Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boetius or Boëthius or Boethius is a Latin philosopher, born towards 470 with Rome, died in 525 with Pavia.

Biography

Boèce made its studies with Rome, then with Athens. On its return, it was high three times at the consulate (in 487, 510 and 511) by Théodoric Large the, king of the Ostrogoth S. But of the enemies found the means of making him lose the confidence of Théodoric. Remonstrances which he addressed to this last, about the exactions of the receivers of the public money, were the pretext of its disgrace.

A decree of the senate declared it guilty treason; locked up in a prison, it was put at died in 525. Its goods, whose confiscation had been pronounced, were returned to its widow by the queen Amalasonte who made raise her statues.

Boèce was the adoptive son of Symmaque (of Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus - put at dead him also by Théodoric into 525), descendant of Roman a patrician family which gave to Rome some consuls and of the pontifices maximi . Boèce took for wife a girl of Quintus Memmius Symmachus, of which he becomes thus the son-in-law.

Contribution

Boèce was the writer and the philosopher more distinguished from his time. It composed of the treaties of theology, philosophy, and mathematics.

He had embraced the doctrines of Aristote, and had commented on his works. The question of the Christianity of Boèce is put, on the one hand because of the visible neo-platonist loans in its philosophical writings and undoubtedly also because it imports the logical treaties of Aristote (the Analytiques ) in its theological writings; one even made a martyr of it: it is that one confused it with another Boëce, bishop in Africa at the 6th century.

Boèce forged the term Quadrivium, or sees quadruple, to indicate the scientific studies which were to follow the Trivium (Grammaire, Dialectique and Rhétorique), namely the Arithmétique, the Géométrie, the Musique and the Astronomie.

Boèce played an important role in the thought processe of the following centuries and the emergence of the thought. Its explanations of the Catégories of Aristote provided the model of the medieval comment. It transmitted the doctrines neoplatonicians and the essence of the Logique aristotelician, of which it makes the first a use in what one could call a work of theologist.

Boèce is a major relay between the Antiquité and the Moyen-âge, even modern times.

For Ignatius Reilly, hero of the conspiracy of the imbeciles of John Kennedy Toole, Boèce is the philosopher impossible to circumvent of that which tends to the scholarship.

Works

  • works of Boèce were joined together with Venice, 1491; with Basle, 1570; with Glasgow, 1571 and with Iéna, 1843. The Consolation was often published in share, she was commented on by Thomas d' Aquin and translate by Alfred Large the, and has several times translated into French: by Jean de Meung, Paris, 1483; P.R. of CERIZIERS of the Society of Jesus (second edition in Paris, 1636); Leon Colesse, 1770; Louis Judicis, 1861.

Dom François-Armand Gervaise wrote his Vie , 1715.

Quadrivium : Treaties of Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, arithmetic Astronomy

  • Institution , ED. and transl. by Jean-Yves Guillaumin, Paris, Beautiful Letters, 1995.
  • Institutio geometrica
  • De Institutione Musica , transl. Giovanni Marzi, Rome, Istituto italiano per the storia della Musica, 1990.
  • Treated music , introduction, translation and notes by Christian Meyer, Brepols, 2004.
  • Institutio astronomica

Dialectical Rhetoric and

  • On the differences topics (four books)

theological Treaties

  • Treated theological , transl. Axel Tisserand, Paris, Garnier-Flammarion 876,2000.Introduction: pp. 7-60. Text: pp. 61-193. Notes and appendices: 195-263. Work bilingual Latin-French . Includes in particular: Against Eutychès and Nestorius , the De Trinitate , a text On the substances , as well as the Of fide catholica . This volume proposes an excellent introduction by Axel Tisserand on the way in which Boèce includes/understands the relationship between philosophy and theology, as well as a rich person apparatus of notes and appendices.

Consolation of philosophy

  • Consolation of Philosophy , translated by Louis Judicis. Paris, 1861. To consult in line
  • the consolation of Philosophy , transl. Jean-Yves Guillaumin, Paris, the Beautiful Letters, 2002.

Translations of Aristote

  • Logica vetus
  • Logica nova
  • First analytical
  • Analytical posterior
  • Second analytical

Comments of Aristote

  • Introductions to the categories of Aristote
  • On the categorical syllogism
  • hypothetical Syllogism

Others

  • Against Euthychès and Nestorius
  • Of hebdomadibus
  • De Trinitate ( Of the Trinity )
  • Utrum Lord's Prayer
  • Of fide catholica ( Of the catholic faith )

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Biography of Boèce. This biography on the FREE site KNOWLEDGE, is drawn from a work of 1825 of J.A.C. Buchon.
  • complete works of Boèce;
  • Boèce - Consolation of philosophy.

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