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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Again, I think that's a very very absolute perspective. And I think it actually diminishes the value of Dante and of the Divine Comedy..."
A student argues that this divine explanation is too absolute because it diminishes Dante and the Divine Comedy as humanist achievements, and because human beings do not need God in order to value them.
"Again, I think that's a very very absolute perspective. And I think it actually diminishes the value of Dante and of the Divine Comedy..."
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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