258 - Love And Attention - Thunder Bay Conference
The Symbolic World
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Dante's Ascension of the Heavenly Spheres
Dante was like in this interesting transition period I think he probably felt that he was in this transition period and so to warn the like Star Trek science fiction reader of the future be interested some point tells Dante it's like the souls don't actually inhabit these heavenly spheres. If you can understand that which is above you then you can understand why these souls that inhabit different virtues move up into greater and greater goods, she says. The whole poem was about love and about what draws us into these goods now my contention is that Dante is helping us understand the manner in which attention functions through care and desire for a good. That is actually how categorization functions obviously he wouldn't actually probably
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