Temenos Academy Newsletter Boethius Course 2025

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NEWSLETTER NEW ONLINE COURSE On the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius 24 February – 12 May, Mondays, 7-8.30pm GMT (no sessions on 17 March and 21 April). Course Leader Dr Valentin Gerlier At once a masterpiece of Latin literature and a philosophical classic, On the Consolation of Philosophy (523 CE) is a seminal text of the Western spiritual imagination and has exerted a profound influence from the early Middle Ages up to the present day. Unjustly imprisoned and awaiting a fated trial, Boethius encounters a mysterious feminine figure in his cell, ‘Lady Philosophy’. She proceeds to guide him along a meditative philosophical ascent to the Good itself. In the course of profound philosophical dialogues between the two, numerous themes are explored: human nature, the nature of virtue, the nature of free will, justice, chance and providence all figure along this deepening exploration. As Boethius’s understanding deepens, each step along the journey throws a clearer light on the preceding ones, with Lady Philosophy guiding him towards a manner of wisdom whose reach coincides with the embrace of the cosmos itself. VALENTIN GERLIER is Lecturer at Schumacher Wild, Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth and Research Associate at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. He is author of Shakespeare and the Grace of Words (Routledge, 2022) and regularly teaches and lectures at the Temenos Academy. Course Cost £150 or £100 for Temenos Academy Members/ full-time students Venue Online, via Zoom Text Boethius, On the Consolation of Philosophy, trans. David Slavitt. Harvard University Press, 2008 To Book temenos...@myfastmail.com or 07513 883 335. [Image Credit – Lady Philosophy consoles Boethius. Detail of an illustration for the Consolation of Philosophy by the Coëtivy Master (Henri de Vulcop?), c. 1465. Image courtesy of the Getty Museum]   THE ARCHIVE Our website Archive hosts many audio and video recordings of lectures, digital versions of all thirteen issues of the journal TEMENOS, and the texts of seventy articles from Temenos Academy Review. New material is added regularly. https://temenosacademy.org/main-lecture-archive https://temenosacademy.org/temenos-journal-archive https://temenosacademy.org/temenos-academy-review-archive Many of our audio recordings are available as PODCASTS. PAYPAL GIVING FUND UK The Temenos Academy is registered with PayPal Giving Fund UK. When using PayPal if you choose you may also make a donation in support of the Temenos Academy. Thank you FURTHER INFORMATION EMAIL temenos...@myfastmail.com TELEPHONE 07513 883 335 PRIVACY POLICY https://temenosacademy.org/privacy-policy