Dante's Comedìa and Our Comprehensivity @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

With his death 700 years ago Dante Aligheri (1265–1321) bequeathed us a visionary epic poem, his magnum opus, the Comedìa, sometimes known as The Divine Comedy. The Comedìa gives us scope, imagination, guidance, and content in support of our comprehensivity, our state or quality of understanding our worlds ever more extensively or broadly and ever more intensively or deeply.

This event will explore Dante's Comedìa from the perspective of our comprehensivity.

This event will focus on the ideas explored in the 2nd and 3rd sections of my (long) essay "Dante’s Comedìa and Our Comprehensivity": https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2021/11/dantes-comedia-and-our-comprehensivity/

Those two sections are entitled "The Virtues of Comprehensivity in the Comedìa" and "The Value of the Comedìa for Comprehensive Practice". To save time, you can save reading the first part "Assessing Dante’s Contribution" until the December 5th event on "Reflecting on Dante's Inspired Poetry for his Septicentennial" https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/gsmwfsyccqbhb/

Draft Agenda:

• Welcome, Intro to Comprehensivist Wednesdays
• Segment 1: "The Virtues of Comprehensivity in the Comedìa"
  Note: this segment will be significantly abridged from the essay so that there is enough time for Q&A and Segment 2! Read the essay for all the details!
• Group Q&A to explore together your questions on "The Virtues of Comprehensivity in the Comedìa" including what, if anything, you see in Dante's Comedìa that shows affinity for our comprehensivity, our facility for comprehensive exploration?
• Segment 2: "The Value of the Comedìa for Comprehensive Practice"
• Group Q&A to explore together your questions on "The Value of the Comedìa for Comprehensive Practice" including what value, if any, you find in the Comedìa for your comprehensive practice?
• Closing remarks

This event is part of our "Reading Dante in 2021" project that began around 1 January 2021 and will end on 5 December 2021. This web page coordinates that effort: https://www.cjfearnley.com/Dante2021.html

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Angela‬ Cotellessa
‪Aug 26: The Art-Experience and The Architecture of Our Identities Karen ‬
‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller with CJ Fearnley
Watch it here: http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley
Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgxwR29_WY

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