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Jiang endorses the student's summary by saying Dante's synthesis is what makes their present conversation possible.
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Aquinas
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Jiang says Aquinas treats Dominican corruption as the result of excessive institutional power: a learned order spread through Europe as inquisitors and was ultimately corrupted by that power.
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Jiang says direct teaching against fear would fail because scholastic and mendicant attempts already tried that route without changing people.
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Around 1300, Jiang says Catholic hierarchy was reflecting on Augustine's problematic theology, and Aquinas began replacing Augustine with a more open-minded orthodoxy closer to Dante.
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"have these amazing conversations that we're having exactly that's exactly right uh yes so as"
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"...mention is that um the reason so for um St Thomas Aquinas the reason why he thinks that the Dominican order became corrupt is..."
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"...okay but probably not because we know that same as Thomas Aquinas tried it didn't work the Franciscans tried it didn't work the Dominicans..."
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"...And so, what happens is that a new theologian named Thomas Aquinas comes and his orthodoxy starts to replace that of Augustine. and Aquinas..."
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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 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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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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