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Bromwich argues that Macbeth's famous 'if it were done' speech is not a neutral hesitation but a fantasy of containing murder so completely that no consequence, earthly or eternal, would follow from the deed.
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Consequence
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...then it's done quickly. If the assassination could trample up the consequence and catch withrukt with his surcease success. sass that but this blow..."
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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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A student correctly tracks Jiang's model of hell by saying the punishment reveals both the principle behind the sin and the damage it does to oneself and others.
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Jiang's first reply is that harmful action triggers harmful consequence, using retaliation as an ordinary-world analogy for moral accountability.
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Jiang rejects moral cheapness by saying people retain free will, but they should not make a vow to God unless they are willing to die for it, because consequence is what gives speech and the universe meaning.
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"...then it's done quickly. If the assassination could trample up the consequence and catch withrukt with his surcease success. sass that but this blow..."
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"...first part of that speech if you could travel up the consequence and catch with his surcease success it's almost as if the echo..."
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"ambition which or leaps itself and falls on the other so the fantasy is in this bank and shoal of time like crossing a..."
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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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"that make sense okay all right uh yes consequence and the principle behind your sin to make you realize the sins essence and what..."
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"you make the bad puppet well i mean i mean if you do bad things bad things are gonna happen to you right if..."
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"...If you can just speak out anything you want, well, no consequence, then this universe has no meaning by itself. So that was your..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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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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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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