The Dante passage being read defines envy as a vice that arises when people desire divisible goods that become smaller when shared.
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Envy
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...things such as sharing, then them apportions less to each, then envy stirs the bellows of your sighs. But if the love within the..."
Key Notes
Jiang explains envy as ignorance of the universe's real structure, because people mistake reality for a zero-sum material contest instead of a spiritual order where sharing increases good.
Virgil's discourse, as read in class, makes love the seed of both virtue and punishable action, and defines ill love through supremacy-seeking humiliation, status envy, and revenge.
Jiang says Virgil treats pride and envy toward other people, not hatred of God or self, as the operative source of sin.
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"...things such as sharing, then them apportions less to each, then envy stirs the bellows of your sighs. But if the love within the..."
"...all right. So what, so there are in the terrace of envy. And here people must expiate themselves of their envy of others. And..."
"...others, right? So that is the misconception. That's why people have envy, because they are ignorant of the nature of the universe. Envy is..."
"Then if I had held my tongue before, I host a deeper doubt within my mind. How can a good that's shared by more..."
"From this you see that, of necessity, love is the seed in you of every virtue and of all acts deserving punishment. Now, since..."
"...for you to hate yourself. So the hate comes from your envy of others, your pride, the fact that you want to stand above..."
"...particular sin, okay? So terrace one is pride, terrace two is envy, terrace three is anger, terrace four is laziness, terrace five is covetousness,..."
"Or is it envy? And can envy dwell in heavenly breasts? These, these, and many more causes import your need of this fair fruit...."
"godness that has banished every envy from its own self burning itself and sparkling so it shows internal beauties all that derives directly from..."
"...continues when rachel saw that she bought jacob no children she envy her sister and she said to jacob give me children or i..."
"...impart against his will of all be his? Or is it envy, and can envy dwell in heavenly breaths? If he is God, he..."
"All right? The godly goodness that has banished every envy from its own self burns in itself and sparkling so it shows eternal beauties...."
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