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He argues arrogant people are easier to trick than humble people because they are invested in maintaining face and control.
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Arrogance
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Hope is defined as a kind of arrogance: you must believe that you matter and that your actions affect the universe.
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Capaneus is punished more intensely because his arrogance survives death unchanged; even divine torment does not break his defiance.
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The read passage identifies the city's new condition as one of excess and arrogance brought by newcomers and quick gains.
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He defines hope as arrogance, meaning the conviction that one can help change the world rather than waiting humbly for God to do it alone.
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He says the final cantos are both extremely arrogant and extremely selfless because Dante is trying to show humanity a better future.
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He characterizes that hope as arrogant because Dante inwardly treats the imagined future as destined even without evidence in the present.
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Jiang says Beatrice's testimony amounts to the claim that there is no greater Christian than Dante and that Dante's heaven-journey is meant to authorize the writing of the Divine Comedy.
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"so you recognize oh it's just arrogance it's this pride i can take advantage of doesn't make sense okay so so again the thing..."
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"...world and arrive at truth uh hope is the idea of arrogance where you have to believe that you do matter and whatever you..."
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"Now here, now there they tried to beat aside the fresh flames as they fell. And they began to speak. My master, you who..."
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"...I had never heard him use before. O Copenius, for your arrogance that is not quenched, you're punished all the more. No torture other..."
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"...comers to the city in quick gains have brought excess and arrogance to your floor, and so you weep for it already. So I..."
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"Excess and arrogance. Also, um, excess and arrogance. These are, this is the current state of Florence, okay? Excess and arrogance. Okay, keep on..."
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"...is like really interesting, is, okay? What is hope? Hope is arrogance. This is a really key concept to Dante, and that's why, again,..."
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"...It's an act of hope, but it's really an act of arrogance. And for Dante, that's very, very crucial. Yes? Did you have a..."
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"...the greatest prophet, okay? Alright? So, it's an act of, um, arrogance, but it's also an act of selflessness, okay?"
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"...it won't happen but that is his hope that is his arrogance okay um and in his heart he knows it is going to..."
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"...and the truth to write the divine comedy this is pure arrogance right and this is what allows him to finish the divine comedy..."
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"...he's also being compared to Jesus, okay? This is his pure arrogance on his part. But it's, again, his arrogance that will drive him..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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Peter Limberg keeps pulling Jiang from method into metaphysics, from Protestant anxiety into secret societies, from Odessa and Iran into elite panic and digital control, until one governing claim comes into focus: power rules...
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