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标题：Dante's Self-Angelizing: A Prophecy of Egalitarian Transhumanism
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作者：Joshua Hall ; Joshua Hall
期刊名称：Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
印刷版ISSN：2410-4817
电子版ISSN：1561-8927
出版年度：2020
卷号：22
期号：2
DOI：10.25180/lj.v22i2.249
语种：German
出版社：Axia Academic Publishers
摘要：In this article, I argue that Dante's philosophical goal is what I term "self-angelizing," an ennobling philosophical education granting one the knowledge and power of an angel, which the medieval scholastics conceived as celestial intelligences. Dante's own path to self-angelizing begins in his early New Life, which approaches a living Beatrice as exemplar of terrestrial angels. Next, Dante's middle-period Banquet discusses following Beatrice into self-angelizing through an education in philosophical virtue. Finally, in his climactic Paradise, Dante performs his own self-angelizing. The upshot of this journey is Dante's prophecy of an egalitarian transhumanism.