“Any freedom that severs us from one another, from our memories of those who came before us, is a lie about being… . It is autonomy collapsing into antinomy, the denial of law itself and of our created being. Dante knows both that there is an autonomy in accord with the structure of created existence, which is truly free, and that there is an autonomy that violates it, caught by its own snare.”
Anthony Esolen
