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Read and comment on the
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introduction to
Cacciaguida's Prophecy.
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The contingency that outside your
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subject notebooks does not extend
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is depicted in the eternal presence.
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Necessity therefore is not felt
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if it is not like a face
reflected in a mirror,
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or a boat descending a torrent.
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That's enough.
Analyse those two tercets.
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The contingency would be
the course of contingent events
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that are typical of the material,
terrestrial world.
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This contingency is completely visible,
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depicted in God's mind.
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Aveterum, to be precise.
Who's smoking?
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Despite this divine presence,
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the course of contingent events
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doesn't take the
characteristics of necessity...
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Exactly like a boat
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descending a river's strong
currents doesn't derive...
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the necessity of its own movement
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from the gaze of the observer
who's contemplating it.
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Fine. To which theory is Dante
referring in these verses?
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To the theory of free will.
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You give logical,
unexceptionable answers,
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but the tone - indeed the
monotone which is a bit boring -
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with which you answer
perplexes me a bit.
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It's as if Dante interested
you little or not at all.
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Just enough to pass the exam.
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It seems your seriousness
belongs, ideologically as well,