The conquest of happiness through philosophy: the example of Boethius

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A análise visa a uma reflexão sobre ética e educação na obra De consolatione philosophiae, de Boécio. A partir da posição e atitude filosófica e de uma breve exposição geral do trabalho, procura-se compreender o processo boeciano de busca da felicidade, exposto no Livro III. No diálogo entre a Filosofia e Boécio, é retomada a ideia de que todos os homens desejam alcançar o bem final identificado como felicidade. Perdidos na multiplicidade fragmentada dos bens exteriores das paixões, os homens devem procurar, pelo caminho da filosofia e sem apelo à religião, o bem único e verdadeiro: Deus. A reflexão mostra o itinerário da vida humana e a necessidade de cada pessoa em "aprender a viver" uma vida ética, libertando-se das paixões do corpo que adoecem a alma. This article analyses ethics and education in Boethius' De consolatione philosophy of Boethius. We seek to comprehend the search for happiness as expounded in Book III of that work. Boethius takes up the idea that all men wish to reach the final good, which is identified as happiness. Lost in the fragmented multiplicity of external goods and passions, men should search - by the path of philosophy and without resorting to religion - the one true good: God. These considerations indicate the path of human life and the need for one to "learn to live" an ethical life, freeing oneself from the passions of the body that sicken the soul

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