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Jiang interprets trusting the devil as a manifestation of pride, because only a proud person assumes he can safely bargain with or outsmart a liar.
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Devil
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So Virgil recognized he's been lied to, like, duh, right? Keep on going."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So Virgil recognized he's been lied to, like, duh, right? Keep on going."
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A student argues that Dante replaces fear of damnation with a humanistic fear of consequences: misactions also matter, so responsibility shifts back from the devil to the self.
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He says Augustine repeatedly equates living by one's own standard, instinct, intuition, or imagination with becoming like the devil.
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"So Virgil recognized he's been lied to, like, duh, right? Keep on going."
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"At which the friar, in Bologna, I once heard about the devil's many vices. They said he was a liar and a father of..."
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"So why would you trust the devil? What could lead someone to trust the devil? Pride, right? Does that make sense? Is there a..."
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"...truly do? Like, he is taking the reins back from the devil, and he's giving the reins to himself."
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"...and not by the standard of God he is like the devil all right"
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"...when you choose to follow your nature you are like the devil there's only by negating yourself there's only by denying yourself can you..."
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"not choose yeah so this is a so so the thing about August that's very important for us to understand is he studied rhetoric..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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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 Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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