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On the Consolation of Philosophy was written in AD 523 during a year-long imprisonment that the Roman statesman Boethius served while awaiting trial, and ultimately execution, for the alleged crime of treason under the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great. Boethius was imprisoned due to treachery, and his experience of this injustice inspired him to question […]
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Lucretius was a Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher born around 99 BC. His best-known work, On the Nature of Things, is a six-book epic poem exploring a wide range of philosophical questions, including how man should respond to the reality of evil and death. For Lucretius, the problem of evil was not a concern about
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“On Providence” is a dialogue written by Roman philosopher and statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC–65 AD) in the last years of his life. In it, Seneca deals with the problem of the coexistence of evil and Divine Providence. His answer is representative of the Stoic approach to responding to the problem of evil. It
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