Abstract

LEYVA, Ricardo. Pier della Vigna’s Injustice (Inferno, XIII, 72). Are Those Who Commit Suicide Being Unfair to Themselves?. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2023, n.65, pp.399-429.  Epub June 09, 2023. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v650.2072.

In Inferno’s canto XIII, in the forest of suicides, Pier della Vigna says that, at the moment of his death, he, who was just, became unfair against himself. This statement raises the question of whether suicide victim can be unfair to himself and how Dante can assert this. In this paper, this question is addressed from three points of view: 1) the characterization of justice in the Convivio, Dante’s philosophical treatise; 2) a passage of Purgatory where Dante develops his theory of action; and 3) a passage of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics where he asks whether a suicide victim is unfair to himself.

Keywords : Aristotle; Dante Alighieri; Inferno; Pier della Vigna; suicide.

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