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Inferno
The Illustrated Edition
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Dante's Inferno for everyone who is reading listening, you should read that book. Dante's Inferno is a topography of hell.
Jordan Peterson · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Nov 2023 Listen at 54:33 What they say about it
- Formulates vision of hell“modern vision of hell”4
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Dante, who wrote Dante's Inferno, is one of the figures of the classic age, the Renaissance, let's say, classic European age, who who really formulated much of the modern vision of hell.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Sep 2026 In the story of the Inferno there's levels of hell right and the outer levels are sort of just common misery you know that's where you are if you're just your day-to-day idiot self.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Sep 2026 The book The Inferno is a story of a voyage to the underworld, a voyage to hell.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Aug 2025 The images of Satan in Paradise Lost and in Dante's Inferno are unbelievably instructive.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Apr 2021 Dante had a special hatred for um Brutus and Casas and in his Inferno he says that uh they are being perpetually eaten by two of Lucifer First's three mouths.
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Inferno by Dante Alighieri is a classic epic poem describing a journey through the underworld and the various circles of hell. On The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, Jordan Peterson recommended the book, describing it as a topography of hell that helps illustrate the layers of human problems and bad choices. Peterson frequently returned to the title on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, noting that classical European literature formulated much of the modern vision of hell through its depiction of concentric circles. He used the framework of the story to explain the spectrums of human misery, comparing the outer levels to day-to-day foolishness and drawing parallels to descending into the depths of unresolved marital conflicts or confronting deep-seated emotional pain and past betrayals. Other podcasters also referenced the poem's vivid imagery and cultural footprint. On Stuff You Should Know, Josh Clark mentioned how Dante specifically placed historical figures like Brutus and Cassius at the very bottom of hell to be perpetually consumed by Lucifer's mouths. Additionally, on The Megyn Kelly Show, Clay Jenkinson brought up the work to emphasize how vital pieces of art and literature risk being lost when removed from school curricula.
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Jordan Peterson So Dante's Inferno for everyone who is reading listening, you should read that book. Dante's Inferno is a t… 7
“Dante, who wrote Dante's Inferno, is one of the figures of the classic age, the Renaissance, let's say, classic European age, who who really formulated much of the modern vision of hell.”
“So see in in the story of the inferno there's levels of hell right and the outer levels are sort of just common misery you know that's where you are if you're just your day-to-day idiot self”
“And that is what happens if you go down Dante's Inferno to the bottom when you're having a conflict with your wife or someone that you love and you get to the bottom of things and sort it out, right?”
“Now, to investigate those, you have to take a trip to Dante's Inferno. Okay? So, the the book The Inferno is a story of a voyage to the underworld, a voyage to hell.”
“It parallels the notion in Dante's Inferno, right? Because Dante's Inferno is a set of concentric circles. Inferno. What's that? I'm reading the Inferno. Oh, okay.”
“So Dante's Inferno for everyone who is reading listening, you should read that book. Dante's Inferno is a topography of hell.”
“the images of satan in paradise lost and in dante's inferno are unbelievably instructive”
Clay Jenkinson let's say you drop Dante's Inferno out of the curriculum 1
“let's say you drop Dante's Inferno out of the curriculum”
Josh Clark Dante had a special hatred for um Brutus and Casas and in his Inferno he says that uh they are being perpet… 1
“Dante had a special hatred for um Brutus and Casas and in his Inferno he says that uh they are being perpetually eaten by two of Lucifer First's three mouths”
Luke Burgis there is uh there is some ultimate desire you know dante talks about that at the end of the inferno 1
“there is uh there is some ultimate desire you know dante talks about that at the end of the inferno”
Mel Robbins our English teacher decided to be really awesome if we read Dante's what is it Dante's Inferno 1
“our English teacher decided to be really awesome if we read Dante's what is it Dante's Inferno”
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“moving onum to Dante's Infernouh it was in Dante's Inferno the burning Rage of fierce itching that nothing could relieve is how falsifiers were punishedyeah”
“well don't ever read Dante's Inferno you don't want to read that”