Desire: that feeling or emotion which is directed to the attainment or possession of some object from which pleasure or satisfaction is expected (OED). Boethius writes in his Consolation of Philosophy that the human person is left unsatisfied by false goods and is guided by Lady Philosophy to recognize the ultimate good to satisfy his desire. Dante places himself as a pilgrim in the Divine Comedy by using descriptive imagery of the contrapasso to demonstrate the effect that straying to sin can have on oneself, and he is guided by Virgil and Beatrice to obtain satisfaction in paradise. Both authors describe their exitus et reditus to God, but that is ultimately guided through their respective Muses to find that yearning for a life
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Boethius holds the responsibility of bequeathing wisdom traditions displays that although we can be drawn away from God from a wrong sense of true happiness. As a philosopher, he must incite reason and look deep into his soul to understand what we truly desire. Even as a philosopher, Boethius was lost and needed guidance to recognize that through his misfortune and imprisonment to learn that he needed God in his life. It was Lady Philosophy that drove the yearning in the heart for Boethius to obtain true happiness because he was a man who thought he had everything, where in fact, he had lost a sense of what really matters. Boethius describes himself going astray, “like the drunken man who cannot find his way home, the soul no longer knows what its good is” (Boethius 45). True happiness originates from the soul, and, although money can satisfy temporary needs, there is nothing more fulfilling than God. False goods bring us away from God and plague our soul to desire materialistic items and further separate us from the creator. The false …show more content…
There essentially is no escaping one’s fate if they do not refrain from living this life of sin you are willed from the act committed as the inscription over the gates state made from primal love. Discovering what sins lead us to certain fates in Hell, it is possible that we learn to not live these lives, lest we face the suffering as those long before us have. In the Ninth Bolgia, there is an instance where Dante uses the contrapasso to identify the sins from the Sowers of scandal and schism and that by voluntary doing this act results in a horrific fate. The nature of the sin is pictured as Dante describes it as, “man’s memory and man’s vocabulary/are not enough to comprehend such pain” (Inf. 28, 5-6 pg. 151). The crime results in the devil bloodying and mangling what is left of their tortured bodies, and it goes to represent that this act is one that rips apart in the most grueling fashion. Dante explains that there no glory in this sin and should be set as an example for humanity that one should not turn from God or they will suffer a grave punishment. Free will allows us to choose sin the gravest sinners of Lucifer as well as Judas, Brutus and Cassius. They are locked in the frozen circle by Lucifer’s wings and remain forever away from the warmth of God’s love, “He flapped them
Boethius holds the responsibility of bequeathing wisdom traditions displays that although we can be drawn away from God from a wrong sense of true happiness. As a philosopher, he must incite reason and look deep into his soul to understand what we truly desire. Even as a philosopher, Boethius was lost and needed guidance to recognize that through his misfortune and imprisonment to learn that he needed God in his life. It was Lady Philosophy that drove the yearning in the heart for Boethius to obtain true happiness because he was a man who thought he had everything, where in fact, he had lost a sense of what really matters. Boethius describes himself going astray, “like the drunken man who cannot find his way home, the soul no longer knows what its good is” (Boethius 45). True happiness originates from the soul, and, although money can satisfy temporary needs, there is nothing more fulfilling than God. False goods bring us away from God and plague our soul to desire materialistic items and further separate us from the creator. The false …show more content…
There essentially is no escaping one’s fate if they do not refrain from living this life of sin you are willed from the act committed as the inscription over the gates state made from primal love. Discovering what sins lead us to certain fates in Hell, it is possible that we learn to not live these lives, lest we face the suffering as those long before us have. In the Ninth Bolgia, there is an instance where Dante uses the contrapasso to identify the sins from the Sowers of scandal and schism and that by voluntary doing this act results in a horrific fate. The nature of the sin is pictured as Dante describes it as, “man’s memory and man’s vocabulary/are not enough to comprehend such pain” (Inf. 28, 5-6 pg. 151). The crime results in the devil bloodying and mangling what is left of their tortured bodies, and it goes to represent that this act is one that rips apart in the most grueling fashion. Dante explains that there no glory in this sin and should be set as an example for humanity that one should not turn from God or they will suffer a grave punishment. Free will allows us to choose sin the gravest sinners of Lucifer as well as Judas, Brutus and Cassius. They are locked in the frozen circle by Lucifer’s wings and remain forever away from the warmth of God’s love, “He flapped them