“When my soul made its way back / to the things that are real outside it / I came to know my errors were not false.”

Dante’s Purgatorio, 13 – 15, (the terrace of the envious).

Some questions discussed in this episode:

• Can love undo the damage inflicted – to the self and the the community – by envy?
• Is there a Golden Mean between vice and virtue?
• Just how Aristotelian was Dante anyway?
• How does the kind of person you are change the things you can (and cannot) see?
• What is the distinction between truth and fact?
• What does Dante means when he speaks of art as an “error” that is not false?