THST 3564 Ethics and Justice in Dante’s Inferno

4 semester hours

This is a semester-long, close reading of the Inferno, the first part of Dante’s three-part Divine Comedy. We examine Dante’s understanding of divine justice as manifested in hell’s punishments and its structure. We focus especially on Dante’s understanding of justice as moral virtue and cull form the Inferno his theoretical framework of ethical analysis.

University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Ethics and Justice.