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– Liberality (money to serve humanity) – Self-control – Chastity “SEVEN” Love Perverted – Pride – Envy – Wrath – Humility (free servant of all) – Generosity(admiration)

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1 – Liberality (money to serve humanity) – Self-control – Chastity “SEVEN” Love Perverted – Pride – Envy – Wrath – Humility (free servant of all) – Generosity(admiration) – Meekness (strength under control; lion) Love Defective – Sloth (indifference to others) Love Excessive – Avarice (money) – Gluttony (food) – Lust (sex) Authentic Love (Caritas) proper love of food and sex SINS VIRTUES – Zeal (commitment /active concern for all)

2 HUMAN EXCELLENCE (fulfilment) Theological Virtues FAITH (access to full wisdom) HOPE (gives motivation to courage) LOVE (motivation for self- control) Natural Virtues GOODNESS – JUSTICE – WISDOM – COURAGE – SELF-CONTROL Faith, Hope, and Love provide Fully human spirit to Goodness Complete

3 CARITAS the fullness of authentic Love AGAPE= God’s love for man EROS= human love desiring fulfillment CARITAS= agape fulfilling eros – Giving eros the right ‘spirit’ (humility protecting against pride) – Giving eros the right ‘perspective’ (clarifying the true value/hierarchy of ‘goods’). Example: authentic love is superior to intellectual prowess; ordinary humans can be more fulfilled than philosophers, mystics… CARITAS summarizes the project of human life: a concrete way of living/ relating (not a search for purely self-centered actualization and satisfaction) CARITAS comprises the optimal balance of all human capacities (intellectual, artistic, socio-political…). Virgil and Beatrice.

4 HISTORY (linear) human and individual From Eden (earthly paradise) to Heaven(celestial paradise) via Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso Creation-Fall- Law/Prophets-Redemption-Consummation Attention to the present (Purgatorio) Understanding the past (Inferno) Expectation towards the future (Paradiso) Existential perspective: Dante’s own life and conversion Four human conditions: innocence-fallen-redeemed- glorified or damned Dynamic process from slavery to freedom via faith(Beatrice) and reason(Virgil), determined by human freewill /love [everyone gets what s/he chooses/loves] “Know Thyself” necessarily means knowing your place in human history as well as understanding your own personal history

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