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Defined as the immutable and unwritten laws of the universe, though this segment contains substantial ASR damage after the definition.
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God
Defined as the immutable and unwritten laws of the universe, though this segment contains substantial ASR damage after the definition.
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Jiang says Dante's God is perfect and eternal, and that perfection creates a problem because it lacks imagination and cannot itself generate creative expansion.
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Jiang defines the divine spark in humans as love, and says that loving another person awakens the spark's desire to return to God.
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Jiang interprets Rousseau as saying freedom is given by God, connects humans to God, and cannot be surrendered without surrendering humanity.
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For Jiang, La Commedia lets people access God by bypassing the Catholic Church and places love first, with love identified as God itself.
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Jiang reads Dante's shadowed forest as a middle-aged spiritual crisis in which hatred of the world becomes self-hatred and loss of connection with God.
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God, as perfect love, generosity, forgiveness, and beauty, cannot require obedience as a condition for heaven because free will and reciprocity contradict each other.
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Dante never directly announces Virgil's unreliability; he plants clues so readers must recognize and reject Virgil themselves in order to embrace God.
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Jiang defines God as perfect love, generosity, forgiveness, and free will, therefore not reciprocal or contractual.
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"...to do is explain to you Dante's cosmology, how he understands God and our relationship with God. So, God in Dante is really the..."
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"because when god created us okay he breathed into us life because that's what it says in the bible therefore there is a spark..."
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"to the source in our world but we can love someone else not money not our pet not a computer but someone else it..."
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"And it doesn't make sense to speak my right against myself."
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"...the argument is this. Our freedom is given to us by God. Our freedom is what connects us to God. So our freedom cannot..."
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"...So he wrote La Commedia in order to have people access God. For the comedy, you can access God and bypass the Catholic Church...."
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"In half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest. For I had lost a path that does not stray. It..."
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"...much hatred in the world, he has lost his connection with God. And he doesn't know how to proceed. It's a long period of..."
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"...So something that we discuss a lot is the idea of God, okay? And God is the perfect manifestation of love, of generosity, of..."
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"God will always give you free will. And free will and reciprocity are a contradiction, okay? If I make you do something in order..."
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"it shows you the limitations of Virgil's worldview, where in the Imiad, it's all about reciprocity, okay? It's all about contract. It's all about..."
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"truly enter paradise, for us to truly discover God, we need to recognize he is unreliable ourselves. Dante will never tell us, but he'll..."
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