1. What is Boethius' situation at the beginning of the work? What bearing does this situation have on his attempt to come to a philosophical understanding of life?
2. What, according to Boethius, is the nature of Fortune? What is the relationship of Fortune to happiness?
3. What is the relationship between the Supreme Good and all the goods that people pursue in this life? Why is the Supreme Good superior to all the other goods?
4. What is the connection between the course of Fate and Divine Providence? How does one shift their life from a dependency on Fate to a reliance on Providence?
5. What is Boethius' view of the nature of evil? How are the wicked punished? How convincing do you find these ideas?
6. How does Boethius reconcile God's foreknowledge with free will?
7. What continuities with the philosophy of Plato do we encounter in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy?