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4 timestamped hits 2 source readings 3 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-06-15, day precision Aliases: course-designs

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Course design

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "journey with Dante and the great books okay thank you so much okay so as you can see from the screen we will be..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "journey with Dante and the great books okay thank you so much okay so as you can see from the screen we will be..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Paradise As A School For Imagination And Will (2026-06-15, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Paradise As A School For Imagination And Will; Predictive History Begins As A School.

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Key Notes

Method claim on 2026-06-15 for this two-week course.

model

Jiang deliberately starts the Dante workshop in Paradise, not at the beginning of the poem, and says the rationale will become clearer over time.

Course plan for mid-August 2025 and the fall term.

prediction

When he returns to Beijing in mid-August, Jiang plans to compress the 60-class human-history course into a 30-class version with more material and clearer underlying themes.

Course-improvement promise for the next school year, stated on 2025-06-13.

prediction

Viewer comments will shape the next course iteration, which Jiang promises will be leaner, cleaner, and more enjoyable.

Timestamped Evidence

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Paradise As A School For Imagination And Will

2026-06-15, day precision · claims, semantic-ref

Reading

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...

Predictive History Begins As A School

2025-06-13, day precision · claims, semantic-ref

Reading

Jiang explains the channel from the inside: a teacher leaving Beijing, watching Iran and Israel move toward world war, and trying to turn a student review archive into a new history that can explain...

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