Vision and Agency in Prudentius’ Psychomachia

Vision and Agency in Prudentius’ Psychomachia

Continuing on the thread of agency over one’s faculties of reason from the Boethius blog post, we will now apply this question to Prudentius’ Psychomachia to see if we can’t complicate the matter further. Sight and recognition is a major issue in the Psychomachia with...
Boethius and Free Will for the Sake of Reason

Boethius and Free Will for the Sake of Reason

.aoBoethius, like many other philosophers, feels the need to reason out the existence of free will in Book V of his Consolation of Philosophy. It is a natural question to come up when contemplating matters such the existence of evil amidst God’s providence. In the...