A student suggests that hell matters more for humans because Dante treats the human being as central, whereas giants do not attract the same divine concern.
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Human centrality
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A student proposes that Dante's cosmology places the human being at the middle of the universe, so human action can improve or degrade the whole order.
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"Yes, yes. Maybe because hell, should only impact humans, you know, because the human is seen, Dante sees the human as the middle of..."
"Yes? Well, you see the human himself as like the middle of the universe, and he's like what embodies the universe, and through our..."
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