 Philosophy’s answer to this difficulty is the most philosophically intricate and interesting section of the Consolation. It is one part of Boethius’s work (perhaps the only one) which remains of interest in contemporary philosophy (of religion) and, for that reason, it has often been interpreted according to a framework provided by more recent thinking about the problem of divine prescience (see, for example, Leftow 1991, Zagzebski 1991). The following is, rather, an attempt to present the discussion as it actually proceeds in the Consolation.