 The happiness that Boethius is concerned with is entirely this-worldly. A future life is only mentioned once, in an ambiguous remark to the effect that the more one manages to obtain the happiness that reason tells us is possible in this life, the closer one is to the happiness that faith makes us expect in a/the life to come. It could mean that virtuous behavior betters one’s chances on doomsday, but it could also just mean that the philosopher’s happy contemplative life is the closest approximation to the bliss of the beatific vision.