FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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That war and weaponry should be restricted
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That professors and students should group together in an association called University
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The separation of Church and State and the need for a Holy Roman Empire to exist
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Dante believed that Jesus established the Catholic Church, and he accepted papal authority as divinely ordained. But he did not mistake the men who run the church for God. He saw the church as an icon of Christ – that is, a flawed human structure through which God’s light shines.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Church, in Dante’s view, should not concern itself with political power, nor indeed with material possessions. It should be, instead, the community of those who believe in Christ. Dante has a very suggestive way of describing the role of the Church: the ‘form’ of the Church, he says, is the life of Christ.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dante believed that a single monarch, having no rival to dread, and no further ambition to satisfy, could have no motive to rule otherwise than justly. His monarch was Plato’s heaven-born statesman transferred from the Greek city to the European empire.