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Some more on the Inferno: a descent into the world not only of history and of personal animus but also of the religious and most of all literary knowledge and background that form Dante.\xa0 Eternal justice and its relation to God.\xa0 The Euthyphro question in Dante and Milton: is something just because God says so, or is God just because in his goodness he will unwaveringly do what is just.\xa0 What does Milton mean when he says that he intends to "justify the ways of God to men"?\xa0 Dante has an easier way than Milton to solve the problem: he can make love the principle of the whole universe ("the love that moves the sun and other stars"), so that those in Hell are there by their own desire.\xa0 They get what they want.\xa0 Plato on love and desire and its mistaken objects.\xa0 Complexity of desire and its relation to its consequences (propositional attitudes), but still all in hell are where they desired to be, even if they hadn't thought those consequences through.