Backgrounds of the Divine comedy : a series of lectures / by Dino Bigongiari ; (including four lectures by Henry Paolucci) ; edited by Anne Paolucci.
2005
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Title
Backgrounds of the Divine comedy : a series of lectures / by Dino Bigongiari ; (including four lectures by Henry Paolucci) ; edited by Anne Paolucci.
Created/published
Dover, DE : Griffon House, 2005.
Description
322 p. ; 22 cm
Associated name
Contents
Dante's plan: the ladder of love
Dante's age
The Greek influence
Reality and Being: the search for unity
Order and unity, the Pythagoreans and the magic of numbers
Fortune and the heteronomy of ends: Heraclitus and the eternal law
Democritus and the Sophists
Protagoras
The Sophists and the doctrine of individualism
Dante's love poem and the moral philosophy of Socrates
Plato's ideas; the foundation of ethical conduct
Plato's concept of the soul
The structure and purpose of the state in Plato
The Aristotolean solution: potency into act
The reception of Aristotle in the thirteenth century
Aristotle's form matter, and the doctrine of places
Aristotle's four causes; Chance and fortune; God as pure act
Aristotle's doctrine of the "Golden mean"
The transcendent logos made flesh in Christianity
Aristotle's idea of the state; Ethics as a function of politics
The forms of government
The "organistic" theory of the state
The yearning for salvation: mediation
The new religion of faith, hope and love; St. Augustine and St. Thomas
St. Augustine: the source of great dogmas and great heresies
Introduction to The divine comedy: the love poem that leads to God
Aristotle's potency and act: virtue and the golden mean ; Aristotle's Ethics as the premise for the state ; The Greek heritage ; The fall of the empire and the new religion / Henry Paolucci.
Dante's age
The Greek influence
Reality and Being: the search for unity
Order and unity, the Pythagoreans and the magic of numbers
Fortune and the heteronomy of ends: Heraclitus and the eternal law
Democritus and the Sophists
Protagoras
The Sophists and the doctrine of individualism
Dante's love poem and the moral philosophy of Socrates
Plato's ideas; the foundation of ethical conduct
Plato's concept of the soul
The structure and purpose of the state in Plato
The Aristotolean solution: potency into act
The reception of Aristotle in the thirteenth century
Aristotle's form matter, and the doctrine of places
Aristotle's four causes; Chance and fortune; God as pure act
Aristotle's doctrine of the "Golden mean"
The transcendent logos made flesh in Christianity
Aristotle's idea of the state; Ethics as a function of politics
The forms of government
The "organistic" theory of the state
The yearning for salvation: mediation
The new religion of faith, hope and love; St. Augustine and St. Thomas
St. Augustine: the source of great dogmas and great heresies
Introduction to The divine comedy: the love poem that leads to God
Aristotle's potency and act: virtue and the golden mean ; Aristotle's Ethics as the premise for the state ; The Greek heritage ; The fall of the empire and the new religion / Henry Paolucci.
Call number
PQ4390 .B62 2005