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Hey, you're listening to the Partial Examined Life episode 158 Part 2 on Boethiuses,

the consolation of philosophy.

We just finished talking about stoicism.

So the funny thing, we just had this rancorist back and forth about whether he was being a good stoic or not.

And some of the things that were the same problems we had with epictetus that we then got over

when we talked to Massimo about Seneca, whereas Dylan and I were the ones who were kind of the most down on the book,

both said that we actually didn't have a great problem with the stoicism part.

Like the stoicism part was all familiar and for the most part predictable.

And even if we don't ultimately agree with it, we're not hostile about it so much.

It's these following parts.

So we're going to talk about books three through five, book three, which is mostly about teleology.

And then book four and five are about the whole theodicy part.

The world is basically good.

When it looks like good things happen to bad people, it's not really the case.

You're just, you're not God, so you can't see the big picture.

And that Dylan took that so far as to be describing that as.

Supporting authoritarianism.

Well, let's get into book three.

Does somebody want to sum up what that was about?

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