INFERNO CANTO 8 explained

Synopsis and analysis of Canto VIII of Dante’s Inferno.

1. Flashback used at the beginning
2. Phlegyas the boatman
3. Filippo Argenti
4. “Disdegno” as righteous anger
5. The City of Dis
6. Virgil fails to get in the city

English translations used for this video:
1) Robert Pinsky, "The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation", Bilingual Edition. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374524521/...

About "righteous anger", from Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics: "The man who is angry at the right things and with the right people, and, further, as he ought, when he ought, and as long as he ought, is praised. This will be the good-tempered man, then, since good temper is praised. For the good-tempered man tends to be unperturbed and not to be led by passion, but to be angry in the manner, at the things, and for the length of time, that the rule dictates; but he is thought to err rather in the direction of deficiency; for the good-tempered man is not revengeful, but rather tends to make allowances.
The deficiency, whether it is a sort of 'irascibility' or whatever it is, is blamed. For those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons; for such a man is thought not to feel things nor to be pained by them, and, since he does not get angry, he is thought unlikely to defend himself; and to endure being insulted and put up with insult to one's friends is slavish."

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