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A student says Dante cannot be a determinist because free will has been treated as a fundamental principle throughout the course, and Jiang agrees.
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Determinism
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A student summarizes Jiang's contrast by saying Paul sounds passive and deterministic while Dante makes the reader an active agent inside truth and beauty.
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"I don't, I don't know if Dante would be a determinist. That he's been harping on free will this whole time."
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"That's right. That's right. So that can't be the answer, okay? Free will is the fundamental law of the universe, okay? So why are..."
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"from us I think okay um this reminds me of an analogy I heard about God being a clockmaker and whether the clockmaker um..."
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"...like a critic and he says um your framework falls into determinism right like um It falls into the idea that this will happen..."
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"...that it's creepy. I think it's actually very cool. I fear determinism. Okay. Yeah. And of course, I work for that company and just..."
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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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