L’Appel à l’étude. Afrique Revisiting Dante's philosophical and poetic

Revisiting Dante's philosophical and poetic texts

both by its antiquity and by the fact that it ceased to exist for nearly two millennia and that no informant can come and correct our errors and put us back on the right path

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(Première édition 1930)

L’Appel à l’étude. Afrique Revisiting Dante's philosophical and poeticThis is the most influential Japanese work of the Meiji era, the one that best explains the project of the builders of the new Japan: to make Japan a "civilized" country and not simply modern or especially "Western." "Heaven," it is said, "creates no man superior to other men nor any man inferior to other men. This means that, being all engendered by Heaven, men are equal to one another and that there are no distinctions of rank or class at birth. []