A relação entre o livre arbítrio, a felicidade e a presciência de Deus no pensamento de Severino Boécio.

Abstract

This work aims to highlight the important role of free will to successfully consolidate the idea of happiness in De Consolatione Philosophiae Severino Boethius. Indeed, we go through the main issues faced by the wise prisoner, such as the goods of Fortune, the identification of God as the supreme good that is sought, of course, for all men; the problem of evil and the apparent incompatibility between free will and divine foreknowledge. More peculiar, discuss the view expressed by Boethius, in his testamentary work, according to which, every man to seek the highest good, becomes a god by participation. We intend to demonstrate the important difference between the substance of the creator who is God and the substance of creatures, proposed by Boethius, specifically in its De hebdomadibus, since, in De Consolatione Philosophiae, Roman wise not thematizes more detail such differentiation. We will additionally present the problem of evil, as Boethius says that everything that exists comes from a God who is good and can only do good. In this sense, the author wonders, from which then comes evil? In the treatment of this issue, we note the approach of Boethius with Platonism and Saint Augustine's contribution to the solution of this problem. Finally, our study will stop on the design of Providence, chance and Target, for, soon after, present the Roman wise approach on the issue of free will and divine foreknowledge, highlighting the important role of freedom of the will to obtaining happiness as desired by all.