20 Minute DANTE: PARADISO

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In this final lecture in our Divine Comedy series in one hour we cover the final book of the Divine Comedy: Paradiso. In this lecture we principally focus on the role of Beatrice in Paradise.
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).
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This lecture is based on my essay: The Face of Love: Beatrice as a Type of Christ. Read it here: theimaginativeconservative.or...

[@MrSoBitchy]

Wow. I'm teaching a class tonight about The Divine Comedy and I'll tell my students to come and watch this video after they're done reading it, your analysis is brilliant.

[@PaulJosephKrause]

I'm glad you found it extremely helpful, after all, it is meant for teachers, students, readers and everyone in between! I've had my fair share of explaining the Divine Comedy to students. Hopefully your students gained much from this if they listened!
Cheers!

[@topsecretbear9918]

smart... they will never read it.

[@MrSoBitchy]

@@topsecretbear9918 two of them have :)

[@tomlabooks3263]

@@MrSoBitchy Hello, please feel free to take a look at my series of 100 videos for 100 cantos, in my playlist. I’ve recorded 68 so far and I’m just starting Paradiso. I hope you’ll find them useful.

[@theo_32212]

I listened to this on 1.5x and still sounded fine.

[@Ethan-mn5or]

This is really good. Thank you, and well done!

[@AK-nw7tr]

Thanks be to God. Heard Beatrice a figure of The Immaculate. Would always point to Christ. Peace.

[@willow_the_world3620]

11:41 I'm not the only one who heard Philly cheese right?

[@theo_32212]

lol YES

[@Mellabellaluna]

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[@FaDeDJ0keRtm]

You probably already said this multiple times but what if it's more visually heaven purgatory and hell to represent the path to spiritual enlightenment? And to take it a step further (I myself am religious), spiritual enlightenment with God?
The key thing to take into context here, Dante isn't dead, he's experiencing this while he's alive. Not only that he's moving through the realms and learning and even growing from the experience. This is just how I think these stories could apply to the reader (yes I get it's just a poem).
Inferno: or hell on earth. the hardships that we face because of whatever reason. Could be bad karma, consequences of crimes and actions, or just straight up hard times because of well.... sin. Inferno is coming face to face with your sin or the consequence for it, owning it, and over coming it. aka your hell on earth and everybody's hell is different and less or more severe than the next person. What supports my everyone's own hell statement (yes ik it's just a game), but in the game at some point, Lucifer says "this is your hell". According to the divine comedy or even some instances in the bible, almost everything is a sin if not done in moderation (too little or too much) with the exception of the total destruction sins that are straight up wrong like murder.
Purgatorio: aka spiritual ascension. You've faced your sins and now you've made a resolution to be a better person and own up to them and make a change. The change can be many things from seeking help, better life and or financial choices, purging and cleansing, wanting to better your overall lifestyle, and or getting more in touch with religion. You start doing these things and you don't worry about or (like Dante at the end) forget the bad and focus on the good of the past and progress you made. Figuratively cleansing yourself.
Paradiso: aka heaven on earth or spiritual enlightenment before meeting God. The fruits of your efforts have paid off and you've become the person you were meant to be. On a religious note you've become the person god put you here to be.
Then you got characters like Virgil or Beatrice. There's a saying that some people are put in your life for a reason like to help you grow for example. Like these characters, these people (unconsciously most likely) guide you and you help you grow as a person helping you get back on or stay on that straight and narrow path.
This isn't to say that the realms don't actually exist, but just we experience what Dante went through in a more literal and less dramatized way in life.

[@PaulJosephKrause]

Yes; as this short lecture states, Beatrice acts precisely as that incarnate soul of wisdom, truth, and love for Dante bringing him spiritual knowledge that allows him to get closer to God though I focused on her as an in persona Christi (which she clearly is). I would like to do a lecture on the imagery of the Divine Comedy and their significance, similar to what you’ve picked up on and said. Unfortunately, I kind of have many duties as an editor in chief of a humanities journal, teacher, and writer. Though I have many writings and a number of lectures on Dante; he’s obviously a favorite of mine; I do not yet have enough. Even writings of mine that aren’t on Dante will often make Dantean references. Dante is also heavily influenced by Neoplatonism so the spiritual ascent loses the carnality of the flesh (hell) as one gets closer to pure wisdom (God). There’s so much richness in Dante that to cover it all is impossible in a single talk. But you’re broadly right about what you say regarding the Divine Comedy. Cheers!

[@RottenDoctorGonzo]

I mean this with respect - you sound like Artie from The Simpsons. ☺️

[@e-mail881]

LOL!!!

[@andrewwatson6913]

Construed?

[@Mellabellaluna]

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