Dante And Epicurus

Author : George Corbett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351191692

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Dante and Epicurus by George Corbett Pdf

"Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian, depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God's divine justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is mortal and that all religion is vain superstition. And yet Epicurus is, for Dante, not only the quintessential heretic but an ethical ally. The key to this apparent paradox lies in the heterodox dualism - between man's two goals of secular felicity and spiritual beatitude - at the heart of Dante's ethical, political and theological thought. Corbett's full-length treatment of Dante's reception and polemical representation of Epicurus addresses a major gap in the scholarship. Furthermore the study's focus on fault lines in Dante's vision of the afterlife- where the theological tensions implicit in his dualism surface - opens a new way to read the Commedia as a whole in dualistic terms."

Author : Richard Lansing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2067 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136849718

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Dante Encyclopedia by Richard Lansing Pdf

Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy. The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics to the present.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253209307

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Dante's Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Presents a verse translation of Dante's "Inferno" along with ten essays that analyze the different interpretations of the first canticle of the "Divine Comedy."

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNGFHB

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Alison Cornish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316515068

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Believing in Dante by Alison Cornish Pdf

Tackles specific issues in the Divine Comedy that seem particularly alien to modern ways of thinking and renders them compelling.

Author : Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030407711

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Dante’s Inferno by Raymond Angelo Belliotti Pdf

This book provides a recipe for healthy moral and personal transformation. Belliotti takes seriously Dante’s deepest yearnings: to guide human well-being; to elevate social and political communities; to remedy the poisons spewed by the seven capital vices; and to celebrate the connections between human self-interest, virtuous living, and spiritual salvation. By closely examining and analyzing five of Dante’s more vivid characters in hell—Piero della Vigna, Brunetto Latini, Farinata degli Uberti, Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti, and Guido da Montefeltro—and extracting the moral lessons Dante intends them to convey, and by conceptually analyzing envy, arrogance, pride, and human flourishing, the author challenges readers to interrogate and refine their modes of living.

Author : Jay Ruud
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dante Alighieri
ISBN : 9781438108414

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Critical Companion to Dante by Jay Ruud Pdf

Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest poets in world history. His brilliant epic, "The Divine Comedy", an imagined journey through Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, continues to captivate readers. This work provides an information on his life and work. It covers Dante's canon, including his love poems in "La Vita Nuova" and his philosophical works.

Author : George Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108489416

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Dante's Christian Ethics by George Corbett Pdf

This book is a major re-appraisal of the Commedia as originally envisaged by Dante: as a work of ethics. Privileging the ethical, Corbett increases our appreciation of Dante's eschatological innovations and literary genius. Drawing upon a wider range of moral contexts than in previous studies, this book presents an overarching account of the complex ordering and political programme of Dante's afterlife. Balancing close readings with a lucid overview of Dante's Commedia as an ethical and political manifesto, Corbett cogently approaches the poem through its moral structure. The book provides detailed interpretations of three particularly significant sins - pride, sloth, and avarice - and the three terraces of Purgatory devoted to them. While scholars register Dante's explicit confession of pride, the volume uncovers Dante's implicit confession of sloth and prodigality (the opposing subvice of avarice) through Statius, his moral cypher.

Author : Patrick Boyde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521273900

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Dante Philomythes and Philosopher by Patrick Boyde Pdf

This book is devoted to a full and lucid exposition of Boyde's ideas. In the first two parts, the author presents a systematic account of the universe as Dante accepted it, and explains the processes of 'creation' and 'generation' as they operate in the non-human parts of the cosmos. Dr Boyde then shows how the two processes combine in Dante's theory of human embryology, and how this combination affects the issues of love, choice and freedom. The third and last part of the book consolidates these expository sections with a generous selection of quotations from Dante's authorities and from his own works in prose. At the same time, the book offers far more than a clear account of Dante's cosmology and anthropology. Dr Boyde is interested in Dante's ideas in so far as they inspired and gave shape to the Divine Comedy. Furthermore, in every chapter he demonstrates how the relevant concepts and habits of thought were transmuted into imagery, symbolism, and dramatic scenes, or simply transformed by the energy and concision of Dante's poetic style.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547087861

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Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana Pdf

This is a literary criticism of the three poets named in the title. George Santayana, Spanish by birth lived for many years in America but never became an American citizen. He was a great critic and writer in his time, and this book shows his skills well as he describes the work of each poet in his own unique way.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781435142237

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Three Philosophical Poets by George Santayana Pdf

“I am no specialist in the study of Lucretius; I am not a Dante scholar nor a Goethe scholar….My excuse for writing about them, notwithstanding, is merely the human excuse which every new poet has for writing about the spring. They have attracted me; they have moved me to reflection; they have revealed to me certain aspects of nature and of philosophy which I am prompted by mere sincerity to express, if anybody seems interested or willing to listen.” The modesty exhibited in the above disclaimer—from Santayana’s preface to Three Philosophical Poets—should be viewed in the context of the author’s extraordinary impact as a philosopher and teacher. The Sense of Beauty has claim to being the first major work on aesthetics written in the United States; the multivolume The Life of Reason is arguably the first extended analysis of pragmatism anywhere. Among Santayana’s many well-known Harvard students, Wallace Stevens has acknowledged a clear debt to his work. Based on a course Santayana taught at Harvard, Three Philosophical Poets was first delivered to the public as a series of lectures at Columbia University in 1910. Santayana’s lifelong, learned meditation on the relationship between philosophy and art is apparent. (Santayana’s own prose style has long been considered among the most eloquent in all of philosophy.) Here, he discusses the chief phases of European philosophy—naturalism, supernaturalism, and romanticism—as they are set forth and epitomized by the works of Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, respectively. Praise for Three Philosophical Poets and its author “[A] brilliant and admirable little book.” —T. S. Eliot “The exquisite and memorable way in which he has always said things has given so much delight that we accept what he says as we accept our own civilization. His pages are part of the douceur de vivre.” —Wallace Stevens “Santayana was the real excitement for me at Harvard, especially Three PhilosophicalPoets….It really fixed my view of what poetry should ultimately be.” —Conrad Aiken

Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781446545140

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Dante and Philosophy by Etienne Gilson Pdf

The object of this work is to define Dante’s attitude or, if need be, his successive attitudes towards philosophy. It is therefore a question of ascertaining the character, function and place which Dante assigned to this branch of learning among the activities of man. My purpose has not been to single out, classify and list Dante’s numerous philosophical ideas, still less to look for their sources or to decide what doctrinal influences determined the evolution of his thought.

Author : George Corbett,Heather Webb
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783743612

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Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy by George Corbett,Heather Webb Pdf

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection in three volumes offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy website.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118112410

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Dante's Deadly Sins by Anonim Pdf

Dante’s Deadly Sins is a unique study of the moral philosophy behind Dante’s master work that considers the Commedia as he intended, namely, as a practical guide to moral betterment. Focusing on Inferno and Purgatorio, Belliotti examines the puzzles and paradoxes of Dante’s moral assumptions, his treatment of the 7 deadly sins, and how 10 of his most powerful moral lessons anticipate modern existentialism. Analyzes the moral philosophy underpinning one of the greatest works of world culture Summarizes the Inferno and Purgatorio, while underscoring their moral implications Explains and evaluates Dante’s understanding of the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and the ultimate role they play as the basis of human transgression. Provides a detailed discussion of the philosophical concepts of moral desert and the law of contrapasso, using character case studies within Dante’s work Connects the poem’s moral themes to our own contemporary condition

Author : Ole Thomsen,Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen,Jesper Carlsen,Karsten Friis-Jensen,Minna Skafte Jensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 8772896620

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Classica Et Mediaevalia vol.51 by Ole Thomsen,Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen,Jesper Carlsen,Karsten Friis-Jensen,Minna Skafte Jensen Pdf

Classica et Mediaevalia - Volume 51