{"id":294630,"date":"2025-01-24T19:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-189-st-boethius-stoicism-and-neoplatonism\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:18:49","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-189-st-boethius-stoicism-and-neoplatonism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-189-st-boethius-stoicism-and-neoplatonism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: 189 &#8211; St. Boethius, Stoicism and Neoplatonism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Jan 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p>St. Anicius Manlius Severius Boethius&#8217;s book <em>The Consolation<br \/>\nof Philosophy<\/em>, which he wrote in prison while awaiting<br \/>\nmartyrdom around the year 524, is one of the single most<br \/>\ninfluential works for medieval philosophy and theology. But<br \/>\nBoethius also owed much to the pagan philosophy that came before<br \/>\nhim.\u00a0 Thomas Ward has just written a commentary on Boethius&#8217;s<br \/>\ndialogue for Word on Fire, entitled <em>After Stoicism: Last Words<br \/>\nof the Last Roman Philosopher<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Topics discussed include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boethius&#8217;s debt to Stoic ethics and how he critiques the Stoic<br \/>\nview of happiness<\/li>\n<li>The influence of neo-Platonist philosophy on Boethius<\/li>\n<li>Questions about the account of deification given by Lady<br \/>\nPhilosophy &#8211; is it more Platonist than Christian?<\/li>\n<li>Boethius&#8217;s brilliant arguments about how God&#8217;s way of knowing<br \/>\ndiffers from ours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Ward, <em>After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman<br \/>\nPhilosopher<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.wordonfire.org\/products\/after-stoicism?srsltid=AfmBOopBRfuMW6DMx_iUEH9u2gjSswySJAZ__JrdTznAIpZ3Ptj9mDMJ\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/bookstore.wordonfire.org\/products\/after-stoicism?srsltid=AfmBOopBRfuMW6DMx_iUEH9u2gjSswySJAZ__JrdTznAIpZ3Ptj9mDMJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Way of the Fathers episode on Boethius <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/st-boethius-church-father-and-medieval-scholar\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/st-boethius-church-father-and-medieval-scholar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DONATE to make this show possible! <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP for Catholic Culture&#8217;s newsletter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/189-st-boethius-stoicism-and-neoplatonism-thomas-ward\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 22, 2025 St. Anicius Manlius Severius Boethius&#8217;s book The Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prison while awaiting martyrdom around the year 524,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}