波愛休斯的哲學女神及輓歌的繆思──“哲學的慰藉”

Boethius's Lady and the Muses of Elegy –a reading of The Consolation of Philosophy

本文概述波愛休斯於六世紀早期寫成之新柏拉圖哲學詩體著作“哲學的慰藉”在蠻族對羅馬文明的威脅下，波愛休斯強調對不理性宗教信仰之理性探索的階級關係。這篇文章著重在探討波愛休斯如何釐清此一關係：他闡明詩體較之輓歌的哲學本質的優越性，以及對上帝存在之邏輯正當化的必要性，而非盲目的遵循某一個特定的信條。

An overview of Boethius'sThe Consolation of Philosophyas an early sixth-century work of Neo-Platonic philosophical poetry that, in light of the threat of barbarism to Roman civilization, emphasizedthe hierarchical relationship of rational enquiry over blind faith. The paper focuses on how Boethius undertook this task by arguing both for the superiority of poetry of a philosophical nature over elegy and for the need for a logical justification of God's existence as opposed to irrationally following a particular dogma.