The Sins Of Violence Explained (Sort Of): INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 28 - 51
Virgil begins to detail his mappa mundi--or perhaps his mappa inferno--with a longer look at the seventh circle of hell, the next we'll encounter.He's already explained what's ahead: injustice and malice, force and fraud. Now he's going to make a fuller explanation of force--that is, violence.But violence is not a simple sin. Nor even a halved sin, like anger and sullenness. Instead, violence is divided into parts or categories.What's more, it's roots are a complicated network of Aquinas, the Gospels, Cicero, Aristotle, Boethius, and old Roman law.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we work through…
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