diagnosis
Students argue lust becomes sinful because it can objectify another person and turn them into an instrument for use rather than a human being with dignity.
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Dignity
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "not necessarily right yes uh because the last is the original thing or in the same means that it's just not a real thing..."
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Dante's answer, in Jiang's framing, is that true love wants what is best for the beloved and refuses to degrade the beloved into a price or object.
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"not necessarily right yes uh because the last is the original thing or in the same means that it's just not a real thing..."
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"...object so it objects it takes away their sort of the dignity that they"
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"we can resist we can say no we can deny our love there's no more power is what Beatrice means by free will therefore..."
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"I will leave but I certainly will not degrade you like by thinking that you're only worth $10 million to my eyes you're priceless..."
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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