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The Divine Comedy is structured as Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise, with mathematical symmetry and a solar-system-like paradise ending in the Imperium where God is.
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Divine Comedy
Jiang summarizes The Divine Comedy as a journey into one's own heart and faith.
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Jiang summarizes The Divine Comedy as a journey into one's own heart and faith.
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For Jiang's Homer, love is above the gods because God is love and human beings contain a candle that seeks to return to the light.
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Jiang identifies three hidden messages of the Divine Comedy for science: God is within human love, imagination obligates humans to discover universal laws, and humans can master those laws to improve reality.
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Jiang's own thesis is that Dante, not the background perfect storm alone, is the secret sauce that sparks the Renaissance.
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Letting Virgil go lets the Aeneid dissolve from readers' hearts and minds, making room for the Divine Comedy to reshape their universe.
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The next lecture sequence will turn to Dante, whom Jiang calls the greatest poet and prophet in human history and the second coming of Homer.
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"And this led to many wars. It led also to a splintering of the Catholic Church. And Dante found himself embroiled into a lot..."
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"...will meet God. And that is the very ending of the Divine Comedy, La Commedia. And in Paradise, it is structured as a solar..."
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"...a solar system. Okay? So that's the very structure of the Divine Comedy. And as you can see, it's very mathematical. It's rigorous. It's..."
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"...the truth for your intuition and your imagination, okay? So the divine comedy is a journey really into your own heart and your faith...."
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"...is, is someone who aspires to love. And when we read Divine Comedy, what we will discover is, the reason why is because God..."
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"There's no boundaries to you. But if you're human, you're forced to have an imagination because you'll make mistakes. You will fail. There are..."
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"...our reality, okay? So these are the three hidden messages of divine comedy that will influence the development of science in the Western world...."
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"...I believe, I will argue to you today, that Dante, the Divine Comedy, is what ultimately sparked the Renaissance. Without Dante, the Renaissance, this..."
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"you the scholarly, mainstream argument, and then I will present my argument, which is that Dante is most responsible for the Renaissance, okay? So,..."
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"...dissolve itself. And we will have a new memory called the Divine Comedy come into place, which will reshape the way we see it...."
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"...Remember, Homer created Greek civilization. Well, Dante, with his work, The Divine Comedy, will create modern European civilization. Okay? So next class, next Tuesday,..."
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"...to god okay so treachery is a really important concept in divine comedy because treachery is abs is the worst way to condemn people..."
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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