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    Boethius
    (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and its authors, 2024) Correia Machuca, Manuel
    Boethius was a prolific Roman scholar of the sixth century AD who played an important role in transmitting Greek science and philosophy to the medieval Latin world. His most influential work is The Consolation of Philosophy. Boethius left a deep mark in Christian theology and provided the basis for the development of mathematics, music, logic, and dialectic in medieval Latin schools. He devoted his life to political affairs as the first minister of the Ostrogothic regime of Theodoric in Italy while looking for Greek wisdom in devout translations, commentaries, and treatises. During the twenty century, his academic modus operandi and his Christian faith have been a matter of renewed discussion. There are many reasons to believe his academic work was not a servile translation of Greek sources The Contra Eutychen is the most original work by Boethius. It is original in its speculative solution and its methodology of using hypothetical and categorical logic in its analysis of terms, propositions, and arguments. The Consolation of Philosophy is also original, though many authors restrict it to his methodology and the way to dispose of the elements, but not the content, which would represent the Neoplatonic school of Iamblichus, Syrianus, and Proclus. Boethius was primarily inspired by Plato, Aristotle, and Pythagoras. His scientific, mathematical and logical works are not original, as he recognized.