Dante's Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman

The focus is on what these encounters reveal about the ways in which human beings may relate to one another, and the strength of this engaging book resides in the detailed analysis of a number of exemplary episodes.In this connection, the author's notion of 'shared vision' is persuasi...

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Published in:Medium Aevum 2018, Vol.87 (1), p.185-186
Main Author: PEARCE, SPENCER
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321)
Ethics
Italian literature
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Medieval period
Persuasion
Religious literature
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Summary:The focus is on what these encounters reveal about the ways in which human beings may relate to one another, and the strength of this engaging book resides in the detailed analysis of a number of exemplary episodes.In this connection, the author's notion of 'shared vision' is persuasive: veder congiunto (see Paradiso xxi. 85) becomes a unitary concept denoting, among the blessed, 'vision ... conjoined in God, forming a community of vision that singularly connects each to each' (p. 199).[...]what makes a person that person ... is not intrinsic to the individual ...
ISSN:0025-8385
2398-1423