Educating justice : the contrapasso in Dante’s comedy

Abstract

The text analyzes how Dante conceived the educating justice through the “contrapasso” in the Divine Comedy. After an introduction on the architecture of the work and author’s purpose, the text stops at the Dante’s teaching against different sins suffer the opposite of guilt or exaggeration of the sinful action. The “contrapasso” also is conceived within commutative Justice. It presents examples found in the dante’s work. Shows the relationship between Justice, Reciprocity and Order