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The deliberate, object-oriented form of love that can err by bad aim or bad measure.
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mental love
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...know that, he began. The natural is always without error, but mental love may choose an evil object or err through too much or..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...know that, he began. The natural is always without error, but mental love may choose an evil object or err through too much or..."
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Glossary
The mode of love that can err by choosing a bad object or pursuing a good one with too much or too little force.
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Virgil's explanation in the reading says love is not automatically good: natural love is not in error, but mental love can miss by choosing evil, or by pursuing good too weakly or too strongly.
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The passage being read states that no creature is without love and that error enters when mental love chooses the wrong object or gives the wrong amount of force.
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"...know that, he began. The natural is always without error, but mental love may choose an evil object or err through too much or..."
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"Tell me, my gentle father, what offense is purged within the circle we have reached? Although our feet must stop, your words need not...."
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"The natural is always without error, but mental love may choose an evil object or error throws too much or too little vigor. As..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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