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Ladder of Values

Ladder of Values. An intro to the themes of Dantes’ Inferno. Arrange the following in order, putting at the top the action you consider to be the worst (1) and at the bottom the action to be the least serious (12). A Stealing your best friend’s boyfriend or girlfriend

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Ladder of Values

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  1. Ladder of Values An intro to the themes of Dantes’ Inferno

  2. Arrange the following in order, putting at the top the action you consider to be the worst (1) and at the bottom the action to be the least serious (12). • A Stealing your best friend’s boyfriend or girlfriend • B Killing someone you are supposed to love or be loyal to (like a parent or a sibling) • C Cheating on a test • D Flattering your boss in hopes of getting a promotion (or a teacher in hopes of getting a good grade) • E Blasphemy (cursing God and meaning it) • F Overeating (a whole lot) or getting very drunk – often • G Being a spendthrift, spending money on foolishness • H Starting a war or a riot (being the instigator) • I Having sexual intercourse with someone you love, even though you are not married • J Losing your temper and yelling at someone, even hitting him or her • K Seducing someone you do not love • L Killing many people in a war

  3. Dante’s Inferno An exciting journey through all the circles of Hell

  4. “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…” “Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth without any limits.” - Isaiah 5:14

  5. The Seven Deadly Sins (Saint Thomas Aquinas) • Lust • Gluttony • Avarice • Sloth • Anger • Envy • Pride

  6. Three Types of Sin (Dante Alighieri) • Incontinence (Level 1) • Lack of self control • Violence(Level 2) • Conscious violation of God’s will • Fraudulent and Traitorous (Level 3) • Using reason and intellect as a weapon

  7. VESTIBULE: Neutrals and Opportunists, indecisive, no real beliefs, those who don’t choose sides • CIRCLE #1—LIMBO: Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized Babies • CIRCLE #2: Carnal and Lustful • CIRCLE #3: Gluttons • CIRCLE #4: Hoarders and Wasters CIRCLE #5: Wrathful and Sullen or Slothful

  8. The First Circle • Limbo • Virtuous pagans & unbaptized infants • Homer, Socrates and Plato • “Only so far afflicted that without hope” they “live in desire” (4.42)

  9. The Second Circle • The Lustful • Minos sits in judgment • Blown about forever by stormy winds just as, in life, they were blown about by the winds of passion

  10. Paolo and Francescalust and the false God of LoveCircle Two

  11. The Third Circle The Gluttons

  12. The Third Circle Guarded by Cerberus Wallow in mud and muck Besieged by hail & filthy water

  13. The avaricious and the prodigal The Fourth Circle Avaricious (greedy) Prodigal (wasteful) Useless Labor

  14. The Fifth Circle • The Wrathful, Sullen, or Slothful • Attacking one another

  15. City of Dis Boundary between upper and lower Hell.

  16. CIRCLE #6: Heretics • CIRCLE #7.1: Violence Against Neighbors CIRCLE #7.2: Violence Against Oneself (Forest of the Suicides) • CIRCLE #7.3.1: Violence Against God CIRCLE #7.3.2: Violence Against Nature (Homosexuals) • CIRCLE #7.3.3: Violence Against Art • MALABOLGIA

  17. Descent into lower Hell:Circle 6:Heresyatheists & Non-believersin the afterlife

  18. Circle 7:Violenceagainst God, his creations,and self

  19. ViolenceAgainstSelf Piero delle vigne

  20. Forest of the suicides

  21. The Sodomites violence against nature male homosexuality

  22. Violence Ugolino and Ruggieri

  23. The Malbolge • “Bad Pockets” • Entry to lowest levels of Hell – for those who use their God-given intellect to distort the truth: • Fraud • Treachery

  24. Circle 8: Fraud • CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers • CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers • CIRCLE #8.3: Simonists (Users of the Church) • CIRCLE #8.4: Fortunetellers and Soothsayers • CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters • CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites • CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves • CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers • CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism • CIRCLE #8.10: Falsifiers

  25. CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers

  26. CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers

  27. CIRCLE #8.3: The Simonists

  28. CIRCLE #8.4: Fortunetellers and Soothsayers

  29. CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters “the acquisition of gain (as money) in dishonest or questionable ways; also: illegal or unfair gain”

  30. CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites

  31. CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves

  32. CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers

  33. CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism

  34. CIRCLE #8.10:Falsifiers Ulysses

  35. traitors Cassius Brutus Judas

  36. CIRCLE #9.1 - CAINA: Treachery to Kindred • CIRCLE #9.2 - ANTENORA: Treachery to Country or Political Party • CIRCLE #9.3 - TOLOMEA: Treachery to Guests • CIRCLE #9.4 - JUDECCA: Treachery to Lords or Superiors • LOWEST LEVEL OF HELL: The worst of those who betrayed their benefactors ~Satan, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius (Macbeth?)

  37. Where do you fit in? • http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv • Take the test and find out…if you DARE

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