1. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
And to Dante's surprise, he found Aristotle among the souls in the "Citadel of Human Reason," who is described, "the master of those who know, ringed by the great souls of philosophy (Alighieri III. 131-132)." The philosophy of Aristotle influenced Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas, two of Dante's favorite Christian thinkers, whom, Raffa notes, "strove to validate the role of reason and to sharpen its relationship to faith.... Humans, from the medieval world to the world today, could only save themselves from themselves by recognizing and rejecting the erro...
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- Approx Pages: 5
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- Grade Level: High School
