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| Book 2 Chapter 5: The Golden Age | 2020-06-14T22:22:28Z | The Consolation of Philosophy | img/1295493-1590956117600-5c710a6bc0fe7.jpg | audio/podcast_2020-05-31_boethius-book-2-chapter-5.mp3 | false |
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All the gifts of Fortune are external; they can never truly be our own. Man cannot find his good in worldly possessions. Riches bring anxiety and trouble. — Analysis: Aristotle, the Summum Bonum, and a summary of the false goods. A reading from Hesiod’s Works and Days, and a comparison to Rousseau’s noble savage, and the “General Will” as a distortion of the Catholic Holy Spirit.