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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Natural love
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"And he to me, precisely here the love of good that is too tepidly pursued is mended. Here the lazy oar plies harder, and..."
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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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