NICK DUNGEY:  On Realizing The Role of Fortune

"Our beauty, our strength, our intelligence, our genius, our property, our wealth.  All of those things that we have come to associate as ours, as aspects of our identity as aspects of our character as aspects of the uniqueness of our subjectivity and identity.  According to Boethius, those things are not in fact ours.  They belong to who? Fortune.  And when she spins her wheel and she decides they go, what happens? They go. They go. "

BOETHIUS

"I would like to continue our discussion a while by using Fortune's own arguments, and I would like you to consider whether her demands are just.  'Why do you burden me each day, mortal man,' she asks, 'with your querulous accusations? What harm have I done you? What possessions of yours have I stolen?  Choose any judge you like and sue me for possession of wealth and rank, and if you can show that any part of these belongs by right to any mortal man, I will willingly concede that what you are seeking to regain really did belong to you."

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