I saw Melvyn on the heath recently - but he didnt meet my look. -KO
2009/1/5 MarshaV <[email protected]> > > BBC: In Our Times podcasts. (I do love my iPod.) > > In the 6th century AD, a successful and intelligent Roman politician > called Boethius found himself unjustly accused of treason. Trapped in his > prison cell, awaiting a brutal execution, he found solace in philosophical > ideas - about the true nature of reality, about injustice and evil and the > meaning of living a moral life. His thoughts did not save him from death, > but his ideas lived on because he wrote them into a book. He called it The > Consolation of Philosophy. > > The Consolation of Philosophy was read widely and a sense of consolation is > woven into many philosophical ideas, but what for Boethius were the > consolations of philosophy, what are they more generally and should > philosophy lead us to consolation or lead us from it? > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml > > > > p.s. NEXT WEEK: In Our Time Darwin Special > > > > > . > . > > Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars......... > . > . > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
