Dante's theodicy...

is a commedia

Maslow or Dante on Self-Actualization?

Maslow was too light-headed on self-actualization...
simply: what is the self actualized of a vicious individual?

Maslow needs two parts Dante

pilgrimage a la Dante and Columbus

after the descent

the only way back, through the earthly

some mysterious combination of Dante's and Columbus's

do books escape human?

are the Testaments of the Bible, the Phadrus of Plato, the Enneads of Plotinus, the Confessions of Augustine, the Commedia of Dante, Luther's Theses, Newton's Principia, Goethe's Faust, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Freud's Illusion, etc, et al...in reality more true sub specie dei (or sub specie nihil?) than Cervantes' Don Quixote?

Dante Now?!

those outsiders...preferring a cosmos like "Dante's"
even post-Copernicus, post-"Newton", post-Kant, post-Darwin, post-Nietzsche, post-mortem dei, post-Hubble...