Another student distinguishes Dante from Shakespeare by saying Dante judges with overt certainty, whereas Shakespeare observes human action more than he legislates a final moral architecture.
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Certainty
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Jiang still treats the Cato solution as only one possible logic for handling a Divine Comedy paradox rather than settled doctrine.
A student tentatively suggests Dante may have known his book would change the course of history, but immediately frames that as a possibility rather than a certainty once Jiang presses the point.
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"...he gives people as the calm was saying this reassuring moral certainty certainty but as you said I feel like Shakespeare he more or..."
"Yes. Okay. So that, that's a logic. Okay. I, again, we'll never know. It's just, it's a paradox created, uh, by the divine comedy,..."
"Um, well, maybe because like Dante knew that his book would change the course of history or we would think in this room that..."
"...T truth you view it more as a longing for moral certainty and how would you compare you're asking yeah you're asking how i..."
"yes there's less certainty for sure yeah I have read Shakespeare for AP language and if you literature I memorized most of the quotes..."
"...my videos are getting very popular online because I provide some certainty, some clarity in a very unclear and uncertain time. The risk is..."
"...it pretty high, anywhere between 80 % to 90%. So that's certainty? Basically, certainly, yes. Explain to me how that happens. Okay. So we..."
"...grow like a Ponzi scheme. It mathematically collapses, it's a mathematical certainty. So in order for the whole thing to stay together, to not..."
"...on to your children and your grandchildren. Okay so there's a certainty in that world. Um but in this world if you're middle class..."
"...one's own call is here interpreted as a duty to attain certainty of one's own election and certification in the daily struggle of life,..."
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