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A student proposes an AI-like foreknowledge model in which God sees the outcome of human choices and prepares responses without directly causing those choices.
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Foreknowledge
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So in theology, I think they explain it like this, if I'm not mistaken, is that God has a plan for the world. He..."
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Jiang grants the AI-like explanation as intelligible but stresses that it does not dissolve the problem that traitors still contribute to the divine plan.
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In the quoted passage, Dante asks his ancestor to tell him plainly what fortune approaches, describing earlier warnings as grievous but saying foreknowledge lets the arrow land more gently.
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In the quoted passage, Dante asks for a plain account of approaching fortune and says foreknown suffering lands more gently, while the ancestor distinguishes eternal vision from necessity by comparing it to a downstream ship seen without causing its motion.
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A student frames the central objection to providence as the case of Dante's persecutors: if God foreknows their evil, it becomes difficult to separate foreknowledge from planning.
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"So in theology, I think they explain it like this, if I'm not mistaken, is that God has a plan for the world. He..."
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"So he's not, he's not willing, planning you, predetermining you to make that fall. But he kind of prepares, like, AI. He prepares, like,..."
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"I understand that. But at the same time, they are contributing to the divine plan, right? Go ahead."
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"All we're doing is speculating, okay? Because, like, again, if you read all the commentary, the scholarship on Dante, no one knows what's going..."
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"Like Phaethon, one who still makes fathers wary of sons, when he had heard insinuations, and he, to be assured, came to Clemene, such..."
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"heals souls and when descending to the dead world, what I heard about my future life were grievous words. Although against the blows of..."
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"Verse 25. Thus my desire would be appeased if I might know what fortune is approaching me. The arrow one foresees arrives more gently...."
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"so follow -up question so if god has a plan and god allows you to use your free will to turn away the let's..."
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"them to commit do what they did in that case how did god know about it okay okay you're assuming"
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"like how how god knew that what the bad guys were gonna do if the bad guys really had free will and if they..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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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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