Its author wrote the work, which also covers such topics as free will and predestination, as a dialogue between himself and Lady Philosophy.
God is defined as a "helm and rudder" keeping the universe in line without actually intervening in the third book of this work. In the fourth book of this work, evil is presented as something that makes its perpetrators less human, so evildoers would actually prefer to be stopped. However, this definition necessitates a shift in the meaning of God, as later in the fourth book He is defined as the efficient cause of all things. This work also defines the "highest good" in two ways, by knowing God as perfect happiness, and through "true good" of virtue and sufficiency. Its author wrote the work, which also covers such topics as free will and predestination, as a dialogue between himself and Lady Philosophy. Written while its author awaited his execution for treason against King Theodoric the Great, for 10 points, name this work of Boethius.
God is defined as a "helm and rudder" keeping the universe in line without actually intervening in the third book of this work.
{Consolation} of Philosophy [or {Consolatio Philosophiae}]