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Dante, Convito , I 1, says:⁠—

“Knowlege is the ultimate perfection of our soul, in which consists our ultimate felicity.”

“Knowlege is the ultimate perfection of our soul, in which consists our ultimate felicity.”

It was one of the great questions of the Schools, whether the beatitude of the soul consisted in knowing or in loving. Thomas Aquinas maintains the former part of this proposition, and Duns Scotus the latter. ↩