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The canto stages an interpretive mistake in which distance makes giants look like city towers until Virgil corrects Dante's faulty image.
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The Dante passage Jiang is teaching says Adam's failure to keep the curb on his will damns all his progeny and leaves mankind sick in error for centuries.
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The quoted passage says Beatrice's refutation strips Dante's mind bare of error the way warm sunlight strips snow of its color and cold, preparing him for a brighter truth.
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Jiang interprets Dante as rejecting mere obedience to priestly authority and says real understanding requires open debate in which students are allowed to make errors.
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The passage being read states that no creature is without love and that error enters when mental love chooses the wrong object or gives the wrong amount of force.
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Jiang closes by saying Virgil would rather burn in hell forever than say 'I am wrong,' and then announces that the class will finish the Divine Comedy the following Wednesday.
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Jiang answers that human subjectivity is bad because it generates sin, error, and confusion, so the project of control treats inner difference as the very thing to be overcome.
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Human imperfection enables imagination: unlike a perfect being, humans can err, develop experience, gain wisdom, and learn to love.
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"Canto 31. The very tongue that first had wounded me, sending the color up in both my cheeks, was then to cure me with..."
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"And he, to me, it is because you try to be wise. It is because you try to penetrate from far into these shadows..."
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"My error fled from me, my terror grew. For as on its ground wall Monte Rigoni is crowned with towers, so they're towered here..."
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"quickly free your mind from doubt and listen carefully the words i speak will bring the gift of a great truth in reach since..."
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"who is this man yeah it's adam obviously come on right okay keep on going for this"
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"mankind lay sick in the abyss of a great error for long centuries until the word of god willed to descent to where the..."
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"...its color. It's cold. So is your mind left bare of error. I would offer now to you a new form, light so living..."
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"...as a teacher you have to allow your students to make errors okay all right keep on"
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"Tell me, my gentle father, what offense is purged within the circle we have reached? Although our feet must stop, your words need not...."
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"The natural is always without error, but mental love may choose an evil object or error throws too much or too little vigor. As..."
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"So that's why Virgil had to leave Because he did not want to be wrong Okay? He did not want his world view To..."
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"...subjectivity is bad because it leads to sin. It leads to errors. It leads to confusion. You understand? If we all think alike, the..."
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