FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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As the denial of the soul’s immortality
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As the rejection free will
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As the choiceof lust over love
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As the decision to indulge in various sins
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Dante’s version of Hell, heretics are simply people who deny that the soul is immortal, or those who don’t believe in an afterlife. However, he also includes characters who have brought discord to the community of the faithful through their divisive politics.
Detailed explanation-2: -Heresy is conscious malice against what Dante deems the true religion and faith. As they actively taught others not to believe in the doctrines of God, they did not share in His Divinity or His promise of eternal life which is why they are placed in the burning graves or tombs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sixth Circle: Heretics are trapped in flaming tombs. Seventh Circle: this circle houses the violent. Outer ring, housing the violent against people and property, who are immersed in Phlegethon, a river of boiling blood, to a level commensurate with their sins.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dante’s Inferno-Circle 6-Canto 10. Dante opts for the most generic conception of heresy–the denial of the soul’s immortality (Inf.
Detailed explanation-5: -But the problems we may encounter as modern readers in understanding the arrangement and classification of sin in the Inferno XI help us to understand what Dante believed sin to be. Virgil distinguishes between three types of sin: sins of ‘incontinenza’, sins of ‘violenza’, and sins of ‘frode’.