a fun podcast about reading old books very slowly and discussing them in exhausting detail. If you would like to read along, the reading list can be found at https://keytoallmythologies.com/ktam/
Why does the discourse on love begin with the words of a minor character, Marco of Lombardy, rather than Virgil?
Are Virgil’s discourses on love and free will more Augustinian or Aristotelian?
Is love the only thing in the cosmos that does not diminish as it is shared? Light?
What does it mean to say God is Love? Is God love?
Is Virgil’s schematic approach to these questions an example of the limits of human reason? Is faith what is missing?
Is Dante the poet critiquing Virgil, or are we critiquing Dante?
Even if you claim to hate God, must you still love God in order to live at all, since whatever you love was created by God, and your love for it is ultimately directed toward God, by your free will (or “free will”) via the object of your love?
Because God loves every thing that God created, and free will is the spark of the Divine in you?
So – evil?
16 Oct 2023
Ep. 60: Dante, Purgatorio, Cantos 13 – 15.
Some questions discussed in this episode:
Can love undo the damage inflicted – to the self and the the community – by envy?
Is there a Golden Mean between vice and virtue?
Just how Aristotelian was Dante anyway?
How does the kind of person you are change the things you can (and cannot) see?
What is the distinction between truth and fact?
What does Dante means when he speaks of art as an “error” that is not false?
2 Oct 2023
Ep. 59: Dante, Purgatorio, Cantos 10 – 12.
Some questions discussed in this episode:
What role does art have to play in the transformation of vice into virtue?
What is the connection, if there is one, between the soul of the artist and the beauty of what they create?
If virtue is properly presented by the artist, will it always be attractive, and vice always disgusting, to the audience?
Why is this the where Dante worries the reader might fall away? Why is this an especially dangerous moment for Dante’s vision of the unity of divine justice?
Why is the dominant metaphors in theses cantos economic?
Does every penitent in purgatory pass through every terrace? Or are the prayers of those on Earth enough to zap you past one or all of the terraces and directly to Heaven?
Why is the capstone image of pride the fall of Troy?
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