Augustine's Anthropological Hermeneutic and Political Thought in Dante Alighieri's De Monarchia

• Main Author: Paciorek, Piotr M. (auth)
• Other Authors: Dupont, Anthony (Editor), Eguiarte Bendímez, Enrique (Editor), Alberto Villabona Vargas, Carlos (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Editorial Uniagustiniana 2019
• Subjects: Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics; Social & political philosophy; Aristotle; Augustine; Dante; Homer; Marsilius of Padua; William of Ockham
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This essay aims to evaluate the concept of peace that Dante Alighieri inscribed in De Monarchia, a work that is recognized as one of the major achievements of medieval political philosophy. Articulating peace as the main component of the Christian civilization of Western Europe, Dante remained under...