Glossary
In this lecture, the imperial capacity to absorb losses and return with more soldiers and weapons.
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death
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diagnosis
When a student raises the case where rebellion means certain death, Jiang answers that only a faithless view treats death as the worst thing that can happen.
definition
Another student adds that the afterlife journey only begins once a person's earthly life is complete, so there is no literal acceleration while one is still alive.
diagnosis
A student argues that Beatrice may remain perfect in Dante's mind because death freezes her image at an untouchable youthful age.
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Jiang treats Dante's health as relevant to explaining why he died after finishing the Divine Comedy rather than assuming the poem's completion was the sole cause.
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Jiang speculates that Dante may have been chronically ill, bedridden, and visionary, and that this bodily condition partly explains both the poem's visions and the timing of his death.
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Jiang says Dante finished the Divine Comedy in 1321 and died only months later, presenting the timing almost as if Dante kept himself alive to complete his mission.
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Jiang frames the next problem as explaining why imperfection, pain, and death exist if a perfect God creates everything.
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Jiang argues that if the soul is truly eternal, then death is not the real problem because humans cannot finally die and can only be reborn.
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"...dead horse but like what if rebelling would just mean instant death and you know that for certain so that's your free will would..."
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"and so right so uh so i mean you think death is the worst thing that can happen to you you don't have any..."
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"so how can i like you know get up to heaven faster i think in general the journey to heaven"
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"or to purgatory or to hell really start after a person completes his life's journey so until the person completes his life journey there's..."
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"I think two things are happening. The first thing is that this is a very contemporary take, but the thing we cannot get is..."
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"No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that his image of her is frozen and that she cannot do anything to..."
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"Okay. So, okay. That's a great question. Okay? Why is it that he died after he finished Divine Comedy? And I want to say..."
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"Probably not, guys. Okay? Probably not. He was probably sick most of his life. Right? And that's probably why he had the visions that..."
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"average the alba jinxian crusade okay so this is really important for you guys to understand the president movement was not a sudden revolution..."
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"finish the line comedy and then when he finished it he's like my mission is done i can now rest and be with god..."
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"Okay. All right. Okay. So why is there imperfection in the world? Why is it that plants wither and die? Why is it that..."
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"Sorry, do you want to say something? Okay, so what this is saying is like, remember that you think you're a body, you think..."
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