Great Books II   Spring 2007
  Reading Questions  
 

January 29

  

Dante

Read one Canto aloud each day.

 

 Augustine (VII-VIII)
Focus on XVII-XXI

  1. Why is there a great waterfall separating violence and fraud?

  2. Are the sins concentrically dependent?  That is, can we say that all sins of incontinence contain some form of violence and that all violence contains a form of fraud?

  3. What lessons does Dante learn from the a) flatterers, b) soothsayers?

  4. Why does Dante place the Malebranche here?

 

 

 

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