AHSS*1260- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)
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The poem ends with dante trying to describe, inadequately he admits, the vision of god. Human failings are more to apt to be caricatured as a foolishness than to be condemned as sins. Reforming the church: the church was the keeper and protector of christian truths and the harbour of salvation for those at sea in sin. But the institutional church had strayed far from the percepts of humility and love enjoined by jesus. To live, one must choose, and to choose is to prefer one course as better than another. Want to avoid two things: precipitate conclusions (hastiness) and preconceptions (categorizing something before you have good warrant to do so) . You do that by accepting things that are so clear and distinct that you have no occasion to doubt them. Distinct means so precise and different from all other objects the tit contains within itself nothing but what is clear: second use recommends analysis.
