ACEDIA U DANTEHO AKO SVETSKÉHO AUTORA A V DOBOVEJ KÁZŇOVEJ TVORBE

• Authors: Šavelová Monika

Title variants

EN

Acedia in Dante’s production as the secular author and in period disciplinal production

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to highlight the category of joy in the faith, which has changed over the centuries from the initial spontaneous, unprompted joy of the availability of souls’ salvation to joy as an evidence of repentance, what we can see in particular Dante’s sad sinners in the fifth circle. Dante does not believe that people could feel the joy spontaneously and therefore establishes the need to rejoice as a command, which defaulting he punishes by putting them to hell: it is a punishment of lack of joy and therefore sorrow, and acedia. Dante’s sad sinners are considered mentally ill, who are unable to rejoice and that is why they are more reprehensible. He places them in the mud of Styx to analogously punish their memory. As they were sad in a pleasant atmosphere during their lives, now they are sad in the black mud. The concept of acedia is found in several works of contemporary authors of religious literature, but its translation has multiple meanings. It may be a reluctance but also sombre, oppressive sadness, a particular kind of melancholy and bitterness, in which a human becomes not only a passive and careless about any spiritual value but he also feels a repulsion to these values, his inside is full of anger and this could finally ends up in complete stupor.

Keywords

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SADNESS; ACEDIA; JOY; DANTE

• Publisher: Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica
• Journal: Motus in verbo: časopis mladej vedeckej generácie
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 58 – 65

Contributors

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Šavelová Monika