However, this good does not just cover up the evil in the story and make it vanish. Therefore, evil exists in the world.If somebody would come up to Beothius and say the argument against the fact that evil does not exist he would simple argue back saying that evil does not exist only to the supreme good. This being God. Boethius says Only to divine power are evil things good, when it uses them so as to draw good effects from them. All things are part of a certain order, so that when something moves away from its assigned place, it falls into a new order of things. Nothing in the realm of Providence is left to chance (Beothius Book IV prose 6 p.96). Stated before Fate is the things in motion and is the evil things and since the moving things fall into a new order it is no longer in motion. It is now seen as Providence, the good, and from the Supreme goods view evil does not exist. Therefore, Boethius would counter the argument made before that evil does exist.In Book IV of The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius tries to solve the great problem of evil. He goes about doing so by using the concepts of Providence and Fate to argue that evil can not exist in a world controlled by a true Supreme good. However one could argue against Boethius, but he would just come back with another counter argument. In conclusion I think that Boethiuss argument that evil does not exist is a valid one....
