Core profile
Transmits logic and gives influential definitions of person, eternity, providence, and participation.
Concepts to watch
Personeternityprovidence
Thinker profile
Boethius
Transmits logic and gives influential definitions of person, eternity, providence, and participation.
Dates
c. 480-524
Tradition
Latin Christian
How to study this thinker
- 1Start with the basic problem this thinker is trying to solve.
- 2Name the concepts Aquinas receives, corrects, or resists.
- 3Return to Aquinas and ask how the borrowed insight is reordered.
Aquinas connection
Influence on Aquinas
Aquinas repeatedly uses Boethius on personhood, eternity, and the relation of created goods to the first good.
Aquinas responds
He deepens Boethius with a more explicit account of essence and existence and with a fuller metaphysics of creation.