Dante and Cecco d’Ascoli on Love and Compulsion: The Epistle to Cino, Io sono stato, the Third Heaven

2021 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-61
Author(s):  
Teodolinda Barolini
Keyword(s):  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
The Third ◽  
Vita Nuova ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
Philosophical Importance ◽  
The Erotic

Abstract Arguing that Dante ultimately views compulsion in the erotic sphere as part and parcel of compulsion in the properly philosophical sphere, aka determinism, this article traces Dante’s variable thinking on this core issue as he veers from a moralistic view in the Vita Nuova to a more “scientific” view in the third epistle and again to a moralistic view in the Commedia (whose circle of lust boasts, in the wind that buffets the lustful, an example of compulsion borrowed from Nicomachean Ethics 3.1). The philosopher and astrologer Cecco d’Ascoli is a contemporary witness to the philosophical importance of these issues: in his philosophical poem Acerba, Cecco attacks Dante’s love poetry for harboring deterministic belief.

Practical Truth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Charles
Keyword(s):  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
Two Component ◽  
Major Competitor ◽  
Additional Support

This paper concerns Aristotle’s discussion of practical truth in Nicomachean Ethics VI.2.1139a17–b5. The essay falls into five sections. In the first three, I outline two styles of interpretation of Aristotle’s remarks and suggest that one of them (which I call ‘the third way’) gives a better reading than that offered by its major competitor (which I call ‘the two-component’ view). In the fourth I consider some texts in the remainder of NE VI which provide additional support for the third way of reading. In a brief concluding section, I seek to locate Aristotle’s view of practical truth, so understood, in a broader philosophical context.

I pathe di Epicuro tra epistemologia ed etica

Elenchos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-230
Author(s):  
Francesco Verde
Keyword(s):  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
The Third ◽  
Philosophical System

Abstract The focus of this paper is the analysis of the epistemological and practical role played by pathe/affections in Epicurus’ philosophy. Epicurus firstly considered the affections not as emotional/passional conditions, but as firm criteria of truth and more specifically as the third criterion of the canonic (i.e. the epistemological part of his philosophical system). In this article the critical reactions (in particular by the Peripatetic side: Aristocles of Messene) against the Epicurean position about the function of the affections will be investigated too. Finally, two parts of this paper are devoted to the Cyrenaic tripartition of pathe (in all likelihood, a subject criticized by Epicurus) and to the probable doctrinal relationship between Epicurus’ pathe and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Book 2.

‘Matta Bestialita’ in Dante's ‘Inferno’: Theory and Image

Traditio ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 247-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred A. Triolo
Keyword(s):  
High Probability ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
Total Structure

What was Dante's interpretation of the third Aristotelian disposition of Nicomachean Ethics 7, which he calls ‘la matta bestialitade’ and how does it function in the structure of the Inferno? Correlatively, what range of meaning did Dante assign the second disposition, ‘malizia’? The problem is difficult at best and, from a modern point of view, apparently literarily unrewarding. What is more, after a long tradition of scholarly discussion and dispute a kind of consensus has emerged. With the solution which it proposes most are willing to rest content and indeed many simply take its correctness for granted. It is the thesis of this study that the consensus is based on an improvisation and that the high probability of an alternative solution can be effectively demonstrated. Underlying this is the conviction that this is not a scholarly quibble, of interest only to the ‘experts’ or merely a matter of interest for the history of ideas. Rather it is a problem with profound significance for the total structure of the Inferno both intellectual and literary.

scholarly journals Arabic “Raa” between Plosiveness and Friction

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Tareq Ibrahim Al-Ziyadat
Keyword(s):  
Hard Palate ◽  
Vocal Cords ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
Three Stages

The study aims to elucidate plosiveness and friction in the “Raa”, (the tenth alphabet in Arabic) benefiting from what the ancient and modern scholars said on the issue. The core issue of the study is Sibawey’s classification of the “Raa” a tense phoneme in whose articulation the sound repeatedly flows leaning toward the articulation of “Lam” (23 Arabic alphabet) avoiding laxity. Had not the sound repeated, we wouldn’t have had the “Raa”. Tensity (plosiveness) and frication are two contradictory features which can never have the same place of articulation. The sound is articulated at stages, each of which has its own features. After analysis, it was found that the articulation of “Raa” passes through three stages. In the second, in the space between vocal cords and top of the tongue the “Raa” is fricative, while in the third, the closure stage between top of the tongue and hard palate, the “Raa” is plosive but this plosiveness is less in intensity than that of plosive phonemes. Therefore the “Raa” can be neither plosive, nor fricative, but in between “medial”.

scholarly journals MUA'LLAGAT ZOHAYR IBN ABI SOLMA: ELEGANT PIECE OF ARABIC POETRY (1)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yahya Saleh Hasan Dahami ◽  
Abdullah Al Ghamdi
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Courtly Love ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
The Third ◽  
Critical Methodology ◽  
Classical Poetry ◽  
Classical Arabic

Zohayr ibn Abi Solma is identified as an eminent poet who produced poetry distinguished with preeminence in courtly and virtuous love. The study employs an analytical and critical methodology, attempting to elucidate the influence of virtuous love narrated by the poet in the first verse lines of his great Mua'llagah. It commences with a terse introductory synopsis shedding light on the importance of classical Arabic and its involvement with poetry. The paper attempts to prove, via the poetry of Zohayr ibn Abi Solma, the greatness of the Arabic classical poetry and demonstrate the aptitudes of the poet through his Mua'llagah. It is divided into four main parts. The first part deals with the greatness of the Arabic language then it moves to the second section that focuses on Arabic Poetry: Treasure of Wisdom. The third one sheds light on the poet's 'The Man and the Poet', and the last main part goes with an analytical and critical endeavor of the first ten verse lines of Al-Mua'llagah of Zohayr. It comes to an end with a conclusion. Keywords: Arabic Literature, Arabic Poetry, Courtly Love Poetry, Courteous Arabic Poetry, Umm Awfa, Virtuous Poetry.

Exile

2021 ◽  
pp. 398-414
Author(s):  
Johannes Bartuschat
Keyword(s):  
Major Element ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Vita Nuova ◽  
Moral Lesson ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Human Condition

This chapter examines the way the poet represents his exile. It is composed of three parts: the first considers the way Dante handles his exile in relation to authorship, and reveals how he constructs his authority from his position as an exile in the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, and his Epistles. The second analyses exile as a major element of the autobiographical dimension of the Commedia. It shows that the necessity to grasp the moral lesson of the exile constitutes the very heart of the poem. The third part explores the relationship between exile and pilgrimage, the latter being, from the Vita Nuova onwards, a symbol of the human condition, and demonstrates how Dante interprets his experience both as an exile and as a wanderer in the other world in the light of pilgrimage.

Early Italian Lyric

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Roberto Rea
Keyword(s):  
Love Poetry ◽  
Literary Authority ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Vita Nuova ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lyric Poet ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Guido Cavalcanti

In order to examine the relationship between Dante and the early Italian lyric, this chapter focuses on two key moments of Dante’s rewriting of his own story as lyric poet: first in the Vita nuova, which traces the relationship to fellow poet Guido Cavalcanti, and second in the encounters with Bonagiunta da Lucca and Guido Guinizzelli in Purgatorio XXIV and XXVI, which redefine the roles of the major poets of the past generation. These passages are less ambiguous than has often appeared: they doubtless intend to promote Dante’s poetic choices and literary authority, but they also testify to objective developments in the history of vernacular love poetry.

Of Ladies and Lesbians and Books on Women from the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-210
Author(s):  
Pernilla Myrne
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Erotic

AbstractInformation about women in Abbasid society — and especially the subgroups ofmutaẓarrifāt, ladies, andsaḥḥaqāt, lesbians — is gathered from two extant sources that explicitly deal with the subject:al-Muwashshā, “The Painted Cloth,” by al-Washshāʾ (d. 325/936-7) andJawāmiʿ al-ladhdha, composed some fifty years later by ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Kātib. TheJawāmiʿ al-ladhdhais an erotic compendium that relies heavily on earlier sources,al-Muwashshāincluded; however, most of the works cited are lost. A survey of book-titles from the same period indicates that a good many books about women were written at the time. Representations of ladies and lesbians as they appear from the two sources and surveyed lists of book-titles suggest a complex picture of the lady-lesbian that changed over time. That some of the books dealing with the subject were still available some six-hundred years later shows that the erotic lore of the Abbasids continued to arouse interest for centuries.

Studies in the Text of the Nicomachean Ethics. II

1917 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 31-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Ashburner
Keyword(s):  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
The Third

It is generally admitted that Bekker's Kb—Laur. 81, 11—is the best, as it is the oldest, authority for the text both of the Nicomachean Ethics and of the Great Morals. It is desirable therefore that the testimony of that manuscript should be presented to the learned public as accurately as possible. So far as concerns the Nicomachean Ethics, the reports of that testimony which are now available are chiefly the following: (a) Bekker's, as given in his academical edition of 1831, (b) Schöll's, as given first in Rassow's Forschungen über die Nikomachische Ethik, Weimar, 1874, at p. 10, sqq., and subsequently in Susemihl's editions, of which the third and last was edited by Otto Apelt and published in the Teubner series in 1912, and (c) Bywater's, as given in his Oxford text. Bywater's apparatus criticus is unfortunately what is called a select apparatus criticus.

scholarly journals El ser sexual en la poesía de Eunice Odio

LETRAS ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 107-140
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Robb
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Long Poems ◽  
The Erotic

Describe y analiza los temas y procedimientos discursivos de siete extensos poemas de Eunice Odio, y se detiene en dos aspectos: lo sexual en cuanto asociado al cuerpo como objeto poético, y la condición de la conciencia existencial en la naturaleza; así, el discurso erótico en la poesía pasa a ser un proceso de trasgresión. Odio experimenta con tópicos, con alusiones intertextuales y con temas recurrentes que apartan su obra poética de la poesía convencional amorosa, y la muestran como una notable manifestación vanguardista. This article describes and analyzes the discourse techniques of seven long poems by Eunice Odio, and emphasizes two particular aspects: sexuality and its relation with the body as a poetic object, and the condition of existential awareness in nature. Thus the erotic discourse in this poetry becomes a process of transgression. Odio experiments with topics, intertextual allusions and recurring themes which set her poems apart from conventional love poetry, and identify her with an outstanding avant-guard perspective.

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