FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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He promotes the separation of Church and State.
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He declares papal authority infallible.
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He declares emperors infallible.
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He says that all empires should be ruled by dictators.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He believed that peace was only achievable when a single monarch replaced divisive and squabbling princes and kings. However, he also believed in a separation of powers in that the Emperor has jurisdiction over temporal matters, whilst the Pope administered over things spiritual.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a member of a Florentine political party known as the White Guelphs, Dante advocated the separation of church and state, which eventually led to his banishment from Florence in 1302.
Detailed explanation-3: -In De monarchia (c. 1313), still in principle highly relevant, Dante insists that only through universal peace can human faculties come to their full compass. But only “temporal monarchy” can achieve this: “a unique princedom extending over all persons in time.” The aim of civilization is…
Detailed explanation-4: -Thus for Dante the Church is meant to help man attain his immortal end, which consists in the supernatural act of seeing God “face to face, ” while the State is meant to help man attain his mortal end, which consists in grasping philosophic truths.
Detailed explanation-5: -Dante thus argues that the Holy Roman Emperor should be the overarching political authority, and that his authority is conferred directly by God, and not by the ecclesiastical power of the pope.