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title: "Book 1 Chapter 6 & 7: Philosophy Makes Her Diagnosis"
date: 2020-05-10T22:44:46Z
series: "The Consolation of Philosophy"
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Philosophy tests Boethius mental state by certain questions, and discovers three chief causes of his souls sickness: (1) He has forgotten his own true nature; (2) he knows not the end towards which the whole universe tends; (3) he knows not the means by which the world is governed. Analysis: Stoic lessons to ward off the passions; Divine order and the Great Wheel; assessment of the literary structure of the whole Consolation of Philosophy.