Beothius: Every Man Gets What He Deserves

Beothius: Every Man Gets What He Deserves.
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Introduction
Since everyone wants to be happy, we all strive to attain happiness through actions and choices. Happiness is the supreme good since it is an end strived for its own sake. If one wants to accomplish something, then they must will to do it, and they must have the ability to do it. Willing to do something but failing to do it means lack of the ability to do it. A good person, guided by virtues will attain the Supreme Good since they have the ability to do it as a result of being virtuous. Therefore, a good person attains happiness which is what they strive for and deserve. Boethius portrays God as knowing what happens all times including the times that are in the future relative to us, therefore, before one chooses to do something, God already knows it. Therefore, a person who chooses to pursue happiness through virtue ultimately gets what he wants or thinks it is what he wants. This can, therefore, be deemed as their fate.
A person who chooses to pursue true happiness through one of the forms of false happiness, which are as observed by the philosopher “unfortunately, defective: they cannot deliver what they promise”, (Boethius, 4.2.17-244), pursue the correct end but using a means that I defective. The evil will abandon and forget about virtue and instead pursue vice either out of their own ignorance, desire or at times both. They know what choice is better but do not pursue it as a result of their desire. The wicked do evil things, with the notion that it is a sign of power, in the actual sense; it is a sign of powerlessness. Thus, an evil person ends up being incapable of attaining the 'Supreme Good', which is their desire, as a consequence of their chosen means to attain happiness.
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