Boethius's dialogue with Lady Philosophy written while awaiting execution, arguing that Fortune is inherently fickle, that true goods (virtue, reason) are immune to Fortune's wheel, and that divine providence is compatible with human freedom.
Fortune's goods are not real goods; the only true good is the summum bonum which is God; providence governs all things; human freedom is compatible with divine foreknowledge because God's knowledge is eternal, not temporal.
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