Ancient Worldview Essay

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The Ancient Worldview I selected two pieces of work by two very different Authors. The first, Friend Our Closeness is this, by Jalaloddin, Rumi and the second, Pleasures Sting from The Consolation of Philosophy, by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. While these two pieces of work are different, and are from different times periods, they do show that both men did believe in God. The purpose of this essay is to show how two different timeless pieces of work and authors can have the same worldview. In order for a person to understand these two pieces they need to know about the history and culture of the Authors. First we begin with Jalaloddin Rumi who lived 1207-1273, in the cities of Balkh (in modern northern Afghanistan), and Konya,…show more content…
While living with his new family he became well educated which helped Boethius to become magister officiorum under Theodoric who was an independent monarch who ruled Italy in about 520. J, J O’Conner and E, F Robertson, (2000) However in 522 he was charged with treason and sent to prison where he waited for about a year for his trial before being executed. While in prison Boethius created The Consolation of Philosophy in which was the Sixth Century, and upon reading this book I had the pleasure of reading, song VII Pleasures Sting in book III. In this song Boethius is talking to Philosophy and describing the difference between true happiness and false happiness. He uses the analogy of comparing false happiness to taking honey from a bee and in the end the happiness is short lived when the bee stings as he says, in lines 2-7, she stings them that despoil her, and like the winged toiler who’s lost her honeyed treasure, she flies, but leaves her smart Deep-rankling in the heart. In my opinion Boethius is giving the allusion of how a person can confuse false happiness to real happiness. While Boethius did not lead a religious life, his birth family was of the Christian religious culture and toward the end of his life he did pray to
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