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**Heacechig** · 04-18-2012, 04:41 AM

I disagree. I live in NY and I meet all social types. Dante, Shakespeare...the only people I can think of whose interest would be piqued by these writers are pretentious literature majors at NYU. You know the type...people who think they're very educated, deep thinkers...when they're really just a bunch of college kids trying to act the part. So if that's your target audience, I guess you might need Dante. Otherwise, for Christian philosophy, you could just as well talk about Augustine and Aquinas...but those guys are out of the purview of even most pretentious lit majors.

Shakespeare and Dante are both still a part of pop culture in the West. They still release popular films, shows, etc based on Shakespeare (the most recent that comes to mind was that one about the Roman general who turns on his own city) and there was even a video game about Dante's Inferno a year or two ago.

04-18-2012, 04:41 AM	#19
Heacechig Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 484 Senior Member	I disagree. I live in NY and I meet all social types. Dante, Shakespeare...the only people I can think of whose interest would be piqued by these writers are pretentious literature majors at NYU. You know the type...people who think they're very educated, deep thinkers...when they're really just a bunch of college kids trying to act the part. So if that's your target audience, I guess you might need Dante. Otherwise, for Christian philosophy, you could just as well talk about Augustine and Aquinas...but those guys are out of the purview of even most pretentious lit majors. Shakespeare and Dante are both still a part of pop culture in the West. They still release popular films, shows, etc based on Shakespeare (the most recent that comes to mind was that one about the Roman general who turns on his own city) and there was even a video game about Dante's Inferno a year or two ago.
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