GRACE AND ENVY: DANTE RESPONDS TO RENE GIRARD
Journal Title: Δόξα / Докса. Збірник наукових праць з філософії та філології - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue
Abstract
The article proves that according to Girard envy is the most important property of a person, determining the order of violence and victims. It is shown that, in the light of the anthropological significance of envy, Girard reads Dante’s Divine Comedy. It is revealed that, according to Dante, the harmful effects of envy can be overcome by grace. It is mercy that breaks the logic that requires constant sacrifices in order to maintain the sacred order. Understanding charity as a way to overcome envy requires a theological and religious-philosophical understanding of accepting the gift of salvation without violence towards the Other. “Divine Comedy” can be called a theater of mercy, and not only because the first word of its hero is Miserere, have mercy, and it ends with the anthem of the merciful Virgin, but because of its pragmatics of hope, which offers not contemplation, but a transformative action capable of leading each of his readers “to the state of happiness” and include it in the drama of God’s mercy beyond the literary text. Dante not only records the dynamics of envy, but helps to understand how to overcome the crisis of violence, by including the story of purification from envy in a broader perspective of the general path of purification.
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Alexander Filonenko
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