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The uncompromising will that never concurs in wrongdoing even under coercive pressure. The unyielding will the class initially describes as staying loyal to God no matter the threat.
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absolute will
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...with one's will, and no excuse can pardon their joint act. Absolute will does not concur in wrong, but the contingent will, through fear..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...with one's will, and no excuse can pardon their joint act. Absolute will does not concur in wrong, but the contingent will, through fear..."
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The passage Jiang has read into the room distinguishes absolute will, which does not consent to wrong, from contingent will, which yields out of fear of worse consequences.
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Jiang treats the distinction between absolute will and contingent will as a crucial interpretive key that the class must unpack before Piccarda's case can make sense.
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Jiang says Dante's framework does not seek divinization through power; it distinguishes the absolute will that stays connected to God from the contingent will that acts within worldly choice, and it aims to harmonize them so a person moves closer to God.
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Jiang accepts the idea that redemption would require Piccarda's contingent will to come back into harmony with her deeper will rather than merely multiplying good outcomes.
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"...with one's will, and no excuse can pardon their joint act. Absolute will does not concur in wrong, but the contingent will, through fear..."
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"...important idea we need to unpack, okay? There's a difference between absolute will and relative will, contingent will. What's the difference? Yes?"
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"So absolute will is, I will love God no matter what, and contingent will is, I will love God. And then someone tells you,..."
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"Any other explanations? Absolute will, contingent will. What is the difference?"
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"...there are different expressions, manifestations of your will. Okay. There's the absolute will, which is always in connection with God. And then there's a..."
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"like her will should be able to change so like instead of wanting to be closer to god thus being in an enemy she..."
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"is that her contingent will is now harmonized with her will she's coming from a place of"
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"I'd say they come from different places. Absolute will comes from imagination, it comes from your own story, whereas relative will comes from reasoning,..."
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"I don't know. Like, absolute will is no matter what, it's going to happen, but contingent, it's kind of like, because I don't want..."
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"Yeah. I would say contingent will is constrained by reality. And absolute will is like, it's always there."
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"Like absolute will is God, basically, the will of God. And so how can we describe these things more simplistically? Absolute will is what?..."
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"...contingent will, well, it will be the individual human and the absolute will would be by God displaced in us."
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