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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 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...
Jiang predicts that on the current trajectory China's technological buildout could leave basic conditions of life degraded within two or three generations, with air that is not breathable and water that is not drinkable.
Jiang defines empathy metaphorically as water or air: a pervasive life-sustaining medium without which society cannot function.
"...the environment and how maybe in two or three generations the air is not breathable the the water's not drinkable interesting interesting um well"
"...empathy is You know, it's like water, you know, it's like air. It pervades everything that is, and it's fundamental to life. I don't..."
"could have avoided it of pure air and sight okay so we uh were in the terrace of law but um they're"
"...or even kill him so i moved through the bitter filthy air while listening to my guide who kept repeating not cut off from..."
"...said, direct your intellect's sharp eyes toward me and let the air of the blind who'd serve as guides be evident to you. The..."
"...sight. As if it were, where a lark at large in air, a"
"...the Nile at times will slow and form a flock in air, then speed their flight and form a file. So all the people..."
"...my body, and clearly sent the movement of his wings the air's ambrosia. And then I heard, Blessed are those who grace lumens so..."
"...as once it formed life limbs and even as the saturated air since it reflects the rays the sun has sent takes rainbow colors..."
"So there where the soul stopped, the nearby air takes on the form that soul impressed on it, a shape that is potentially real...."
"...blast or heaven's cherubim horsed upon the sightless couriers of the air shall blow the horrid deed in every eye that tears shall drown..."
"...treat his other part and otherwise you were now in the air moist vapor will gather and again revert to rain as soon as..."
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...
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.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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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