Dante and Epicurus
"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 quin...
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| description | "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." |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1585932025-06-27T05:19:42Z Dante and Epicurus Corbett, George Philip III Purgatorio VI Se Lo Convivio Iv Spiritual Hemispheres Guido Cavalcanti guido cavalcanti Virtuous Pagans Bertran De Man’s Spiritual Journey Imago Pietatis Paradisus Terrestris Russian Doll Structure De Vulgari Eloquentia Epicurean Doctrine Epicurean Ethics Convivio II Purgatorio II Frederick II Bertran De Born Dante’s Reception Voi Che Poco La Secular Happiness Homo Naturalis Dante’s Epicureans thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism "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." 2025-04-18T04:14:06Z 2025-04-18T04:14:06Z 2025-04-17T14:54:08Z 2017 book ONIX_20250417_9781351191708_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100962 9781351191708 9781907975790 9780367600105 9781351191685 9781351191692 9781351191715 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/158593 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100962/1/9781351191708.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100962/1/9781351191708.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100962/12/9781351191708.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781351191715 10.4324/9781351191715 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781351191708 9781907975790 9780367600105 9781351191685 9781351191692 9781351191715 Routledge 202 Oxford open access |
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