Boethius's blissful life takes a dramatic turn when he's imprisoned with false charges. In this philosophical treatise, he is dismayed, and complains and grieves about the injustice of his situation. Then, Philosophy appears to him in the form of a woman and attempts to reason with him making an argument that he shouldn't be complaining about this turn of fortune in his life.

Boethius lived between 5th and 6th century AD and his work is been translated from the Latin. Soon after he finished this work, The Consolation of Philosophy, he was condemned to death and killed in a pretty gruesome manner although the exact way of his torturous death is not known and is been thought to have been killed in one of two ways, but I'll let you read that on the epilogue.

It starts as an easy read; however, it becomes complicated, yet filled with wisdom, as it tackles timeless questions and dilemmas of problems such as the existence and prevalence of evil and injustice and fate/predestination versus free will.

I highly recommend this book.
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