Jiang sets up Canto 24 by framing Dante's progress as a movement from learning to examination.
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Canto 24
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Jiang says Dante's ascent culminates in an oral examination where Peter, James, and John test whether he can define faith, hope, and love well enough to ascend further.
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"happens now you guys guess you guys know what happens now we just talked about this you learn and you finish your learning and..."
"There's going to be a test, guys, okay? There's going to be a test. Yes. So before Dante can meet God, he has to..."
"She cannot participate. She cannot help Dante. Dante is now by himself, okay? He now has to prove that he's absorbed the true teachings,..."
"In Paradiso, Canto 24, right at line number 24, Beatrice officially hands Dante over to St. Peter to initiate the examination. In Alan Mandelbaum's..."
"...paradoxes, including the coin. And so on verse 37, 38 of Canto 24, Do test this man concerning the faith by which you walked..."
"Canto 24, verse 79. And then I heard, if all one learns below his doctrine were so understood, there would be no place for..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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,...
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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