[lit-ideas] Re: Speranza, "Lasciate Ogni Speranza Voi Ch'e Entrate"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:21:58 EST
In a message dated 1/24/2010 10:10:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jwager@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Dante's main insight, I think, is that "hell" is not a punishment. It's
NOT a jail. The ONLY thing keeping someone there is their lack of hope; they
have some serious flaw and no hope of changing. So no "gate" is needed; you
keep yourself in the hell of your own making. (This comes, I think, from
Aquinas' view of the lack of reality of evil, which is an absence of
something that ought to be there and is not.
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Good. So we need to KNOW what word he used for "gate".
Portale?
It's "porta celeste" for heaven-gate. So it should be "porta infernale" for
the other end, right? JLS
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