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Jiang interprets Statius as valuing one encounter with Virgil so highly that he would accept another year of purgatorial suffering for it.
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Admiration
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "beyond that spirit replied i bore the name that lasts the longest and honors most but faith was not yet mine so gently i..."
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Jiang rejects a charitable reading of Dante's mood and instead characterizes Dante as too proud and people-hungry for the answer to be simple gratitude toward his admirers.
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The Kanye example lets Jiang separate admiration for a courageous public message from judgment about a compromised personal life.
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He says Jewish people deserve admiration as intellectual people of the book who contributed major ideas to human history.
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"beyond that spirit replied i bore the name that lasts the longest and honors most but faith was not yet mine so gently i..."
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"he's saying is this okay the guy spent 500 years in the same crap over and over to make himself worthy of god and..."
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"Yes, because he's left his fans behind, but he's happy that he had fans."
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"Yeah. Again, you're so generous with Dante. No. Big, big, big, like, like Dante is a really proud people person. Yes. Uh, yeah. That's..."
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"yes i would say uh kanye pretty much shares the same uh perspective with dante on on the world uh like um choose love..."
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"are you concerned at all about his personal life the fact that you know he marries and divorces and he seems to pay no..."
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"are you at all concerned about his personal life i am pretty much concerned about his personal life and i don't think i i..."
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"...of the Jews, okay? That said, I have tremendous respect and admiration for the Jewish people, because they are, first and foremost, intellectual people,..."
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"...you do that? Also remember, Virgil has shown tremendous respect and admiration to Stadius for being able to cleanse himself of all his sins..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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