Premium Content Augustine and Dante on Sin, Virtue, and Agency
By Michael Jin - January 23, 2005
"Here I saw people more numerous than before, on
one side and the other, with great cries rolling
weights by the force of their chests" (Inferno 7.25-27)
"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill man's heart. We have to imagine Sisyphus happy."
---Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
In Confessions, Saint Augustine defines sin as…
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