«Seguir virtute et canoscenza». Lenguaje, pecado y desmesura filosófica en Inf. XXVI, 49-142

MARIANO PÉREZ CARRASCO

Patristica et Mediaevalia

Sección de Estudios de Filosofía Medieval de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2008 vol. XXIX p. 3 - 20

0325-2280

This paper aims at showing the links between the use of language and the sin in one of the most famous episodes of Dante’s Commedia: his meeting with the Greek hero Ulysses. In order to do so, I have analyzed first Dante’s conception of language and his philosophical definition of sin. Having reviewed the different thesis he built up in early works, I perform a fully analysis of the episode of Ulysses, trying to show up the philosophical and linguistic nature of his sin. At the conclusions, I focus the orthodox resolution given by Dante to the general problem of sin.