The students' repeated name for what Dante offers readers: a structure for judgment that can be reassuring, testable, and usable even beyond explicit religiosity.
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moral framework
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "think maybe it provides a moral framework to work off of especially if you're a religious um in the first case uh and also..."
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One student says Dante provides a reassuring moral framework that readers can work from even when they disagree with particular placements in Hell, Purgatory, or Paradise, and compares that reassurance to Shakespearean fate only in a looser sense.
A further student argues that Shakespeare's observational naturalism can complement Dante's framework by helping readers inhabit another person's situation and test moral judgment against modern life.
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"think maybe it provides a moral framework to work off of especially if you're a religious um in the first case uh and also..."
"...we've been learning so far in Dante and in the Dantean framework because if you're able to put yourself in the shoes uh of..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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