An overview of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy as an early sixth-century work of Neo-Platonic philosophical poetry that, in light of the threat of barbarism to Roman civilization, emphasized the hierarchical relationship of rational enquiry over blind faith. The paper focuses on how Boethius undertook this task by arguing both for the superiority of poetry of a philosophical nature over elegy and for the need for a logical justification of God's existence as opposed to irrationally following a particular dogma.
