ABSTRACT
Duns's univocal concept of Being renders eminently possible, if not inevitable, a forgetting of infinite being as something concretely experiential, and this forgetting itself is then forgotten rather than retained as the final and definitive revelation delivered by finite being and its history. Dante is able to invent-or conjecture-the world of his poem with utter freedom of imagination because the world it relates to is strictly speaking unrepresentable. Dante discovers the freedom of poetic imagination such as it can be exercised in a secular universe. In effect, Dante exploits analogy for the very same reason that Scotus rejects it. Yet it still stands radically in relation to another realm, one that is inaccessible by merely human means but one that can be sounded by theology. In contrast to theological revelation, human means discover their own self-reflexive powers of establishing relations internal to reflection as a mediated way of relating to the radically exterior.
