Dr. Philosophy: Medicine Goddess

I wanted to hone in on Prose 6 because I really enjoyed the dialogue between Philosophy and Boethius here. We have mentioned before that he uses a lot of medical terminology, but (I suppose for my own lack of paying attention enough :/) I always chalked it up to the same ideas we had seen before in other authors. like Jerome, where they talk about things like "only use wine because of stomach ailments," etc. But the dialogue here finally made me realize that Philosophy has in essence come to cure Boethius of the crazies! He is fully presented as someone inflicted by mental illness, with a disturbed mind and confusion and ignorance. Philosophy makes a lot of sense here, as who better to cure someone of mental illness than philosophical knowledge. It seems to me almost that Boethius, who had been trying to follow in the footsteps of those he admired, (namely Plato, Socrates perhaps, etc) is losing his mind over being equally penalized and Philosophy has decided to make a house call to snap him out of it, since it would certainly have been a privilege for Boethius to do so. Philosophy in essence has come to free Boethius from the prison of his mind, even though she cannot free him from his paralleled physical prison. If you can be happy in your mind than your physical distress does not matter. Thank you Philosophy, I will try to remember that the next time I am freaking out over the end of the semester. :)