Dante S Christian Ethics

Author : George Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Edward Caird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044058127648

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Dante in His Relation to the Theology and Ethics of the Middle Ages by Edward Caird Pdf

Author : William Henry Vincent Reade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Ethics in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015004959477

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The Moral System of Dante's Inferno by William Henry Vincent Reade Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Giulia Gaimari ,Catherine Keen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781787352278

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Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante by Giulia Gaimari ,Catherine Keen Pdf

Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante’s modern ‘afterlife’. Together the chapters explore how Dante’s writings engage with the contemporary culture of medieval Florence and Italy, and how and why his political and moral thought still speaks compellingly to modern readers. The collection’s contributors range across different disciplines and scholarly traditions – history, philology, classical reception, philosophy, theology – to scrutinise Dante’s Divine Comedy and his other works in Italian and Latin, offering a multi-faceted approach to the evolution of Dante’s political, ethical and legal thought throughout his writing career. Certain chapters focus on his early philosophical Convivio and on the accomplished Latin Eclogues of his final years, while others tackle knotty themes relating to judgement, justice, rhetoric and literary ethics in his Divine Comedy, from hell to paradise. The closing chapters discuss different modalities of the public reception and use of Dante’s work in both Italy and Britain, bringing the volume’s emphasis on morality, political philosophy, and social justice into the modern age of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

Author : J. Philip Wogaman
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664234096

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Christian Ethics by J. Philip Wogaman Pdf

This updated survey of Christian ethics addresses major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. A broad range of topics is discussed, including the biblical and philosophical legacies of Christian ethics and ethics through the early, medieval, Reformation, Enlightenment, and modern eras. This new edition contains more extensive discussions of ethics in the twentieth century, including Vatican II, ecumenical social ethics, and Orthodox Christian ethics. A new section, "Toward the Third Millennium," looks at the issues we will face in the coming decades, including medical, scientific, and political dilemmas, and issues of terrorism, war, and peace.

Author : Rachel K. Teubner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009315357

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Dante and the Practice of Humility by Rachel K. Teubner Pdf

Examines humility as a key to the Comedy's poetry, demonstrating its theological vibrancy for today's readers.

Author : George Corbett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
ISBN : 0367600102

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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 hues 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. Book jacket.

Author : Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Christian Moevs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195372588

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The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy by Christian Moevs Pdf

Moevs offers a treatment of the metaphysical picture that grounds and motivates 'The Divine Comedy', and the relation between those metaphysics and Dante's poetics. He arrives at the conclusion that Dante believed that all of what we perceive as reality is in fact a creation or projection of conscious being.

Author : Pawel Kazmierczak,Jolanta Rzegocka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781527523739

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Moral Upbringing through the Arts and Literature by Pawel Kazmierczak,Jolanta Rzegocka Pdf

Mark Twain, the great American writer of the South whose characters struggle with difficult choices, famously said: “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” Taking Twain’s phrase as a starting point, this book considers how literature and art explore different systems of values and principles of conduct, and how they can teach us to cope at times of trial. Morality remains one of the most contested areas of thought and ethics in the modern world, due to numerous misapprehensions and the move away from solidarity, from what we share and hold in common, particularly our inherent pursuit of virtue and consideration of principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong, good and bad. Featuring essays by scholars from countries which have seen traditions of virtue and character formation perish in the course of tragic social experiments, this book highlights the role of literature and arts in educating about virtues and character, in both a regional and global context. The volume offers philosophical analysis of moral education and engages with the literary canon, discussing the ways in which virtue was taught and can still be taught with Aristotle as one of the regained “tools of learning.” The essays span countries from England, Spain, Italy and Belgium to the USA, Costa Rica, ancient China and Israel, with Poland, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Central Europe receiving considerable coverage. They address themes of virtue and character formation from the Bronze Age to the present and serve as inspiring reading for educators, literary scholars, historians, ethicists, artists and active readers.

Author : Frédéric Ozanam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Philosophy, Medieval
ISBN : HARVARD:HNKAY3

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Dante and Catholic Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century by Frédéric Ozanam Pdf

Author : George Corbett,Heather Webb
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783742561

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

This collection – to be issued 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 : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : P. Levine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230104693

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Reforming the Humanities by P. Levine Pdf

Through an analysis of Dante's story of Paolo and Francesco, this book combines contemporary ethical theory, literary interpretation, and historical narrative to defend the humanities as a source of moral guidance.