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A student's shorthand for contingent will because it still seeks justification from conditions or reasons.
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belief
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is a scottish society there there uh uh is a prevalent belief that witches uh exist and operate in the world in scotland uh..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is a scottish society there there uh uh is a prevalent belief that witches uh exist and operate in the world in scotland uh..."
Key Notes
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Bromwich reads the witches naturalistically: Shakespeare represents a society in which witch belief is real to the characters, and Macbeth's special danger is that he is especially ready to internalize and obey prediction.
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He still frames Shakespeare secularly: Shakespeare takes religious belief as real for his characters and audiences, but the exact theology shifts from play to play rather than arriving as a fixed doctrinal system.
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Bromwich's settled view is that the witches should be understood through belief: people believed in them, and once belief is strong enough, the experience becomes real in practice whether or not the metaphysics are resolved.
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He says people are judged for what they do and what they believe, not for offering God a deal or negotiating around consequence.
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Jiang says the work of life is to align the soul, because what you believe and what you do often diverge.
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Jiang says alchemists are sinful even when they fail because they make others believe the rules of nature can be changed, which produces hubris and bad behavior.
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The class explicitly contrasts alchemists, who cannot really change nature, with falsifiers, who do succeed in changing human belief and the course of events.
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One student says the text has reactivated the question of God even without producing full doctrinal belief.
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"...is a scottish society there there uh uh is a prevalent belief that witches uh exist and operate in the world in scotland uh..."
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"...um into the 17th century so uh you know the the belief that witches operate is is real um what credit does shakespeare give..."
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"um Orthodox Christian of its time uh in the beliefs that it reflects that is to say when you when you um you know..."
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"years of conversing with the things on the other side was they didn't have very interesting things to say they they were like gossiping..."
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"important okay in dante's world god is not transactional maybe in our world maybe in the catholic church but god himself is not transactional..."
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"we continue to read dante there is a difference okay there's difference between what you believe and what you say and what you do..."
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"And we can also appreciate that. These alchemists are sinful because. Even though they're not successful, they're still they're still make a believe that..."
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"For alchemy, we said that to an extent it's futile because it's too much. It has to do with your will, but I'm not..."
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"But how do they succeed? What allowed them to succeed in a way that alchemists cannot succeed? Alchemists want to change the nature. They..."
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"Yeah, kind of. I kind of felt the same, because I dreamed, like, a lot more frequently for these few days. And also, like,..."
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"like it's just kind of similar to how the Divine Comedy State as long as because we could resonate with it so we believe..."
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"is kind of thing you have to determine your mind to believe it so it will exist or if you don't believe it and..."
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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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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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