Dante and Catholic philosophy in the thirteenth century
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- Dante and Catholic philosophy in the thirteenth century
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Dante and Catholic philosophy in the thirteenth century
Author: Ozanam, Frédéric, 1813-1853
Year: 1897
TABLE OF CONTENTS. Preliminary Discourse.— Tradition of Letters in Italy, from the Latin Decadence to Dante 3 Introduction.— Authority of Dante in regard to Philosophy. — Design of the Proposed Work 47 PART I. Chapter I. — Religious, Political, and Intellectual Situation of Christendom from the Thirteenth to the Fourteenth Century; Causes Favoring the Development of Philosophy 63 Chapter II. — Scholastic Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century 76 Chapter III. — Special Characteristics of Italian Philosophy. 96 Chapter IV. — Life, Studies, and Genius of Dante. General Design of the Divine Comedy. Place Occupied in it by the Philosophical Element 104 PART II. Exposition of Dante s Philosophical Doctrines. Chapter I. — Prolegomena 133 Chapter II.— Evil 145 Chapter III.— Evil and Good, in Conjunction and in Conflict 175 Chapter IV.— Good 222 PART III. Chapter I. — Dante's Philosophy Considered. — Analogies with Oriental Doctrines 270 Chapter II. — Relations of Dante's Philosophy to the Schools of Antiquity. Plato and Aristotle.— idealism and Sensism 280 Chapter III. — Relations of Dante's Philosophy with the Schools of the Middle Ages. — St. Bonaventura and St. Thomas Aquinas. Mysticism a