
By Brent Karding
May 23, 2025
Let's be honest: if I plopped a pile of books in front of you and invited you to choose one to read, you probably wouldn't choose one with an arcane subject like "philosophy," even if it was preceded by the word "consolation." I mean, eight syllables for just two words? And the author is definitely not a 20th-century American: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Your brain may have sprained its ankle already, just reading ...