Not much to say, just felt like saying something.

Here's a project to work on: look for people's functions. Why did God make them? Why do they exist? How will they be at the end of their life, or perfected in heaven? The Way of Affirmation doesn't focus on looking at people merely as we perceive them at first glance, but attempting to peer into their sinful souls to find the potentiality they possess. Williams says that we exist for our function, not our function for us: but this is Dante's idea. This explains how Dante says amazing things about Beatrice and believes them to be true. Because she will be perfect, and if you look at her in perspective of her telos, then she is right now.

And I wonder what love is other than this conception of Dante's: if love is a desire for the good. If this is the case, then Dante's Way of Affirmation works by following functions further up and in to their ultimate source, the End of all things, the Final Cause of the world, who is God everlasting.

And then apply Dante's worldview to Christology. I don't know how to describe it, but it looks heart-stopping from here.