Building on the Platonic understanding
of hell as the place where unpunished
violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence
of our free will («the other side
of human dignity»)
and of the significance
of human action, opening up trains
of thought in the direction
of the immortality
of the
soul and the resurrection
of the
body -
and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms
of logic
and reason.