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For Jiang, the willingness to risk yourself and even offend someone's pride in order to protect them.
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act of love
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Glossary
Jiang's phrase for the right way to study and transmit Dante: reading, learning, debating, and teaching as a concrete gift to someone real. Jiang's phrase for teaching Dante to others so that interpretation becomes a gift rather than private possession.
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Jiang says Beatrice must be a real person because the Divine Comedy only works if it is genuinely an act of love rather than a fantasy about an imaginary figure.
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Jiang argues that students will only truly understand Dante if they study him so they can later teach or share him with someone they really love, as an act of love.
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"...instance would you yes it could be a as an act of love it's an act of love you understand it's an act of..."
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"yourself at risk okay does that make sense it's not an act of like i know more than you virgil right you can't know..."
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"...not hold together. The Vine comedy has to be an act of love, okay? Beatrice had to be a real person. Yes?"
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"...to share Dante with the world. Okay? It is an act of love. It is an act of faith. It is an act of..."
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"...learn Dante. So that you... May teach it as an act of love."
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"...teach it to someone that you truly love as an act of love. Alright? So, every day. After class. You should go home and..."
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"You will truly understand Dante. Okay? So, these are the two things I want you to keep in mind. Our mission here in this..."
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"...So that you may teach it to others as an act of love, right? So the reason why you do that is it makes..."
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"...blessedness depends upon the act of vision, not upon the act of love, which is a consequence."
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"...her actions. Because if she rationalizes her actions as an act of love to God, then she would be able to ascend beyond her..."
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"is it is an act of love because it is completely selfless you understand right and when you commit acts of love you are..."
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"a selfless act of love is what elevates you to paradise not the will not the desire but the action itself that's driven by..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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