Glossary
Jiang's label for the state of someone who chooses not to live or redeem themselves, rather than a conventional infernal punishment.
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annihilation
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...people done um bad deeds that too bad they're um in annihilation they're not even in hell does that mean these people don't have..."
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Glossary
Jiang's term for a punishment beyond hell itself, where Augustus is forgotten by God rather than merely tormented.
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Jiang says annihilation names people who chose not to redeem themselves and, more radically, chose not to live.
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He glosses the people in annihilation as those who chose to sleep through life or do nothing with it, which makes annihilation a moral refusal rather than a random punishment.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that Augustus is not merely damned but cast to a place worse than hell, namely annihilation and divine forgetting beyond the universe.
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"...people done um bad deeds that too bad they're um in annihilation they're not even in hell does that mean these people don't have..."
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"well well i mean yes they're in annihilation because they choose they chose not to live"
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"so after oh so after their choice they are forever um yeah because like like they just chose to"
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"do nothing in life they just told to um sleep food life right how's that different from like animals or plants oh so does..."
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"does that choice is instant like like um yeah they don't exist it's your choice not to exist"
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"...basically cast him to a place worse than hell. Which is annihilation. Okay. He is beyond the universe. God has forgotten him. God has..."
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"Does that make sense guys? Because like, again, you have to explain to me where Augustus is. He's not in divine comedy. And he..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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