What is the title of his best-known work?
"De Divisione Philosophiae"
"De Divisione Luna"
"De Divisione Naturae"
"De Divisione Corpus"
Answer
De Divisione Naturae (On the Division of Nature) is the most well-known work of the 6th-century Irish philosopher Boethius. The work, which was written in Latin, is a commentary on the Neoplatonic metaphysics of Plotinus. In it, Boethius sets out to divide reality into its various parts, beginning with the highest principle, the One, and descending through the hierarchy of being to the material world.
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