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Jiang rejects the categories backward and primitive, saying the course should show that those labels are not real explanations.
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Backward
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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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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"...That's a great question. Okay? So the question is, is this backwards or is it primitive? Okay. And, what I want to show you..."
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"...naturalistic uh a feminist shakespeare was capable of being i'm going backwards uh in your three questions but about fortune and that brings us..."
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"...intellects are sick and cannot see, who place your confidence in backward steps, do you not know that we are worms and born to..."
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"...carrying. Just like a boat that starting from its moorings moves backward, backward, so that beast took off and when he felt himself completely..."
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"...faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward because they could not see ahead of them"
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"...is that the people walk around and their heads are twisted backwards so they they only see behind them what was their crime in..."
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"...wanted so to see ahead he looks behind and walks a backward path and so teresias who changed his mien when from a man..."
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"...they are condemned to always walk with their uh head turned backwards so they can they can never see in front of them they're..."
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"backwards right yes but but that's dante's reaction to everyone right it's like i pity this okay and it goes back to the idea..."
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"...people will be condemned to hell with their heads um turn backwards and like i don't know the answer but i'm just curious as..."
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"...they put a blindfold over your head and then push you backwards and you have to expect not to fall. It's like a trust..."
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"...You guys are superstitious. You guys are ignorant. You guys are backwards, okay? I guarantee you, anyone who comes from the past to today..."
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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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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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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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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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