1. Dante and Aristotle - Ethical Frameworks
... agendas are constructed differently and Aristotle's Ethics lack sins against God, Dante and Aristotle generally seem to condemn the same sins (either an extreme or a deficiency). The structure of Dante's Inferno narrowly accords with Aristotle's Ethical framework. The sins of incontinence are deemed the mildest of sins (Canto XI, 80) and thus appear in the second through seventh circles, on the ... suicide and prodigal waste is also something Aristotle agrees with. He stresses, "the destruction of the good through which man lives is a certain kind of destruction to himself " (p215, Infer...
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