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What Does Aristotle Mean In Dante's Inferno

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fects of Aristotle on the Ancient, Aristocrat Alighieri Hell is a concept deeply ingrained in the modern spiritualistic society of our time. The thought of an afterlife of angst and suffering crosses the mind of many average people at least once during their lifetime. What if they had done something that would disqualify them from eternal bliss? Alas, it is truly impossible to know. People have claimed to have been knocking on death's door, and have seen the face of god, but is this only true for the believers, or is it a feasible option for anyone? Although the perturb of hell has lurked in the minds of people for over millennia, it was first modernized and structured by the man of death, Dante Alighieri. In 1308, he wrote a short explanation of his view of hell in a text called “Dante’s Inferno”. This text, was narrated by a famous Italian poet Vigil, and it divided hell into circles, one to nine; the latter being the absolute worst. Each of the circles comprised of characteristics of whom would reside in each of them. It is important to note that Renaissance Europe art and scripture was greatly impacted by the concepts of Ancient Greece. Dante’s Inferno was no exception, as a majority of the ethical …show more content…

The first component of the Divine comedy, or Dante’s inferno, is heavily influenced by Aristotelian ethics because it derives a fundamental foundation from the Nicomachean Ethics, shows how to find balance in life which is theorized by Aristotle in the Golden Mean, and mentions

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