Dante's Divine Comedy

• The way down is the way up. Dante on how to live in turbulent times. Lessons from The Divine Comedy

  This talk was first given to Idler Drinks.For more on Mark's work on Dante - https://www.markvernon.com/dantes-divine-comedy

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• Is hell forever? The Inferno. Jason Baxter & Mark Vernon on Dante’s film noir

  “Circles of hell" has become commonplace in language. But what was Dante trying to show us when he wrote the inferno? What has been lost in translation, with this first canticle in Dante’s trilogy now part of a secular culture?Jason Baxter talks about his new translation of the Inferno with Mark Vernon. They discuss what Dante could convey in language and why the text never ceases to offer fresh insights. How can we understand his encounters with figures from Virgil to Ulysses? What is it truly to be trapped in a hellish state? Why is the road down the necessary precursor to the road into God’s presence?Jason’s new translation is published by Angelico Press - https://angelicopress.com/products/the-divine-comedy-infernoMark’s introduction and guide is too - https://www.markvernon.com/books/dantes-divine-comedy-book00:00 What Dante could do with language9:05 Dante and the infernal landscape of today12:50 Distraction and seeing the truth of ourselves19:18 Intelligence as reason and love26:33 Why must Dante descend into hell?36:08 What was Virgil’s ultimate destiny?41:30 The fulness of divinity we are called to48:07 Jason’s translation of the famous opening line56:20 Jason’s future plans

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• Is hell really boring? Rowan Williams & Jesse Armstrong, Dante & William Blake

  Rowan Williams and Jesse Armstrong talked at The Idler festival, partly around the idea, caught in the expression, “boring as hell”. But is that right, they asked, when a drama like Succession so clearly appeals to us?The question is fundamental, for an age inclined to regard hell as appealing or intriguing, is one on the way to being lost. Drawing on Dante and William Blake, two great diagnostic writers about different states of mind, this talk explores how the passions of the soul, to use Williams’s expression, can hinder and help us on our way. I then think about how various facets of life change when known from within hellish, purgatorial and paradisal perspectives - movement, words, love, time, memory, possessing, faces, wonder.Hell is boring, not from its own perspective, which knows nothing else, but from that of purgatory and paradise. A time that thinks hell is the most interesting place to be is in hell; one that can still say “boring as hell” has at least a flicker of hope.See Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey - https://www.markvernon.com/books/dantes-divine-comedy-book

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• Dante and civilisational decline. A dispatch on disillusionment in politics

  Dante lived through a period of almost total social collapse. Civil war and city-state terror, practiced by the church as much as secular powers, drove him into exile for the last 20 years of his life. For a while, he lost everything. But then, through the trauma, he regained a ground and rediscovered the fullness of life.The Divine Comedy is the product of that transformation. The journeys through hell, purgatory and paradise hold nothing back, be that terrible tortures of extraordinary delights. He wrote for himself, for his readers including us, but also as a warning to his time and future times, such as our ours.So what has Dante got to say to now? What does his analysis illuminate? Much, I think, as I explore in this thought.For more on Dante and my own book see - https://www.markvernon.com/books/dantes-divine-comedy-bookMy earlier thoughts on Plato, Aristotle and Jesus are at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts.

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• What is intelligence? Dante in an age of AI

  Dante's imagery, particularly in the Paradiso, offers powerful prompts to developing the sense of what it is to be intelligent. He wrote for modern times, he said. And now, as AI becomes more pervasive, he can help us understand how machine learning and human intuitions are very different capacities.This was part of a talk given at the Scientific and Medical Network - https://scientificandmedical.net/webinars/For more on Mark's work, particularly on Dante, see www.markvernon.com

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