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In the Dante passage and Jiang's gloss, the chief good is God as the direct source who breathes human life and soul into being.
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chief good
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...take form. But your life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good, who so enamors it of his own self that it desires..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...take form. But your life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good, who so enamors it of his own self that it desires..."
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The Dante passage answers that human life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good, unlike the souls of animals and plants that are drawn forth from matter by the motions of the heavens.
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The Dante passage says animal and plant souls are drawn from matter by holy rays and motion, but human life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good and therefore grounds the reasoning for resurrection.
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Jiang says the proof that humans have a soul is the Dante line that human life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good.
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"...take form. But your life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good, who so enamors it of his own self that it desires..."
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"...read Dante, okay? Your life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good. Okay? Do you understand? Do you understand? And how do we..."
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"...take form. But your life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good, who so enamors it of his own self that it desires..."
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"...are perfect but your life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good who so enamors it of his own self that it desires..."
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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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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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