A insaciável sede de saber na Comédia de Dante: algumas relações com a incontinência aristotélica / The insatiable appetite for wisdom in Dantes Comedy: some relations with Aristotles intemperance
AUTOR(ES)
Emanuel França de Brito
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
This research compares Ciacco, the glutton character punished in the third ditch in Inferno in Dantes Comedy, with Ulysses, the Greek hero who was brought from Ancient Western Literature to the Middle Ages and condemned also in Inferno for his fraud crimes. This comparison is drawn through the analysis of the eating intemperance transgression, described by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics, since this transgression maintains an explicit relation with Ciaccos greediness and is also applicable to the greed for knowledge which Ulysses reflects in the account of his last trip. Through the study of Dantes works, such as the Convivio and the Comedy, an attempt is made to establish a connection between the unstoppable act of eating and the lack of moderation in the search for knowledge; the latter being what causes the eternal opposition between science and faith, so important in the religious context in which the Comedy was written.
ASSUNTO(S)
aristotelian ethics dante alighieri dante alighieri eating intemperance Ética aristotélica faith fé incontinência alimentar sabedoria wisdom
