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title: "Book 2 Chapter 8: The Utility of Adversity"
date: 2020-07-12T21:43:00Z
series: "The Consolation of Philosophy"
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One service only can Fortune do, when she reveals her own nature and distinguishes true friends from false. Philosophy explains the utility of adversity to virtue, and regales us with a paean to divine love. Analysis: Boethius evokes a frustrated aspiration to reconcile Aristotle and Plato, and we begin the transition from Aristotelian virtue, to the Neoplatonic contemplation of The Good. I summarize **The Myth of Er, from Platos Republic**, and read a short quote from it, emphasizing the need for the contemplation of knowledge.