Divine command theory

literally translates to counter-punishment, Dante unpacks the punishment that sinners undergo. At the start of canto III, an inscription above the gates of hell reads “Justice moved my high maker, in power divine, wisdom supreme, love primal” (Canto III, 4-6). The interpretation is that God, the divine, created Hell on the principles of justice and primal love. Originally, this does not sit well with Dante, he battles with the justification of the contrapasso and lacks the understanding of how…

Death is a painful lash of a whip to remind us of the deathless state which is man’s destiny. Through a series of interplay of paradoxes the truth is revealed to man. The Eternal Night in which Savitri finds herself is no more than the shadow of the Eternal Day. Night is compared to the dark mother. Though man feels himself engrossed in night, man has come to this dark mother from a supernal Light, and by that Light man lives and ultimately goes to his final destination. Naturally it is that the…

http://graphviz.org/. This software has a quite simple description language; moreover, we can prepare graphs with several architectures, for instance with the “circo” layout, to produce a circular plot. Graphviz was used in the analysis of Dante’s Divine Comedy, to display the networks of characters. (16) For machine-readable texts several mathematical models exist, useful to study the style of literary works, for instance, by the frequency of word counts, vocabulary items, or…

“Louder than sirens, louder than bells, sweeter than heaven, and hotter than hell.” Florence Welch belts out in a beautifully deep voice. In an instant, she’s rendered the ideals of both Heaven and Hell as insignificant, trivial delusions. She’s singing about the way she feels when she’s in love. This human emotion she’s experiencing is so much more remarkable than anything to be experienced in the afterlife. If love is sweeter than heaven, and hotter than hell, then what is there to look…

Dante’s Inferno was one of 3 works that was compiled into his major work the Divine Comedy. He lived around the 1200-1300s and discussed some of the Florentine Politics he either witnessed or participated in including his exile from Florence. This can be found in the 6th Chapter of Inferno when Dante is in the 3rd Circle of Hell. In the book it referred to the spring of 1300, which is the fictional date of Dante’s journey. Dante being born in 1265 is what people at the time call the “halfway…

The punishment, for each Circle of Dante’s Hell, is connected to its corresponding sin. For example, in the 4th Circle, the Hoarders and Spendthrifts are punished by being forced to push stones into each other over and over. This punishment is fitting because the hoarders’ stones could represent all the materialistic things he or she hoarded and the spendthrifts’ stones could represent all the money he or she spent. The hoarders and the spendthrifts are opposite extremes and because of their…

closer with God. Dante and Augustine both take on the similar journey to get closer to God, divine love and grace. While on their journey they were influenced by a man Virgil whom was a Roman Poet of the Aeneid. Even Dante and Augustine have different representation of their journey they both go through this journey very similarly and for the same reasons. Similar to Augustine in the story the Divine Comedy Dante’s journey starts lost in the darkness of the woods with a poet who portrays…

Dante’s Inferno written by Dante Alighieri in the 1300’s shows a descriptive fictional journey through Hell. It is one of the most well known books about this subject, even though it is not a real religious writing and is just plain fiction.“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost,”-Dante Alighieri. Dante expresses how great his internal struggle really was.Dante was going through a midlife crisis, but he did get more involved…

Fear is a fragile belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat, from the article The Science of Fear by Jules Oliviera. Morality is the principle concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. Often times these two terms are thrown together, one depending on the other. In the book The Inferno there is a blurry connection between the two. As our hero descends through various levels of hell, there are threats in each one that seem to…

The Divine Comedy is the writer who narrates his journey towards redemption. The comedy takes place in the afterworld which is divided into Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise). These three sections are, in turn, divided into 33 Cantos each with the exception of hell which has an introductory Canto. The Florentine writer is accompanied by 2 spiritual guides along his divine journey. The prince of Latin poems, Virgil, in both Inferno and Purgatorio, and Dante’s divine…