Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and De Consolatione Philosophiae
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Consolatione Philosophiae.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Boethius.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's early treatment of divine providence and foreknowledge in the Sentences commentary cites Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae.