Dante's Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781108489416 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 246 str.

George Corbett

Opis

A major re-appraisal of Dante's Commedia - as it was originally envisaged - as a work of ethics.

Recenzje

'Corbett's book is a great scholarly contribution. It adds much to our knowledge of the markedly ethical dimension underpinning Dante's Commedia. Written in a very economical and clear style, Dante's Christian Ethics provides a truly original and solid study of the ethical bearings of the Commedia.' Tomasso De Robertis, Biblioteca Dantesca

Spis treści

Part I. Ethical and Political Manifesto: 1. Dante's ethical agenda: vital nourishment; 2. Dante's political polemic: church and empire; Part II. Reframing Dante's Christian Ethics: 3. Dante's theological purgatory: earthly happiness and eternal beatitude; 4. Two traditions of Christian ethics: Aquinas and Peraldus; Part III. Penance and Dante's Purgatory: 5. The terrace of pride, and the poet as preacher; 6. The terrace of sloth, and the sin of scholars; 7. The terrace of avarice, and love of children.