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Boethius›The Consolation of Philosophy›Full Text

The Consolation of Philosophy

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius · 524

5 chapters · 91 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

Book I — The Sorrows of Boethius

~27 min · 13 pages

Book II — The Vanity of Fortune's Gifts

~36 min · 17 pages

Book III — True Happiness and False

~52 min · 23 pages

Book IV — Good and Ill Fortune

~45 min · 20 pages

Book V — Free Will and God's Foreknowledge

~36 min · 18 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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