Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory, represents natural reason, classical virtue, and the limits of human understanding. This article explores Virgil as a symbol of philosophical clarity, moral insight, and noble limitation, showing how Dante honours reason, even as he insists on the necessity of grace.
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This article explores Dante’s Inferno as a structured moral and theological descent, examining the logic behind each of the nine circles of Hell. From lust and gluttony to fraud and treachery, each level reveals how Dante views sin not just as misdeed but as a deformation of the soul and will.
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Dante’s Inferno presents the Seventh Circle of Hell as the realm of suicides and profligates, those who destroy the self, whether through despair or excess. This article explores the theological, philosophical, and symbolic dimensions of their punishment, revealing a moral economy where the will, once corrupted, leads to irreversible ruin, the ultimate truth: suicide is irredeemable.
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