... "three dispositions that Heaven refuses, Incontinence, malice, and mad bestiality " (Inferno, Canto XI, 80). The sinners are characterized by their immoderacy and inability to regulate their desires. Vices in the inferno thus concur with Aristotle's Ethical framework insofar as vice, as posited by Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics, is characterized similarly by immoderacy and incontinence. As Dante proceeds through ... violence, and fraud. Each circle condemns some sort of excessive or deficient act, the very same structure of morality we find in Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean. Indee...

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... of Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy, also known as Inferno, tells about the spiritual pilgrimage of Dante from Hell to Purgatory (Fiero 148). The Roman poet Virgil, who guides Dante through hell, acts as the symbol of reason and studies the varieties of human sin (Sayre 441). As a matter of fact, the Inferno serves as criticism of his Italian contemporaries, some from history and ... not capable of doing such, it is worse than murder. Political scandals receive so much outrage from the public like the Teapot Dome scandal and the Watergate scandal because nobody, especially those ...

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