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2 timestamped hits 2 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-05-22, day precision Aliases: good-and-evil-longing, good-evil-longing, good-evil-longings

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Good and evil longings

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...your merit may be judged, for it garners and winnows good and evil longings. Those reasoners who reason and reach the roots of things..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...your merit may be judged, for it garners and winnows good and evil longings. Those reasoners who reason and reach the roots of things..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Dante's Revolution Against the Guide Who Obeys (2026-05-22, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Dante's Revolution Against the Guide Who Obeys; Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil.

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Key Notes

Quoted text discussed on 2026-05-22.

model

The same passage argues that moral merit rests on an inborn power that counsels at the threshold of assent, gathering and winnowing good and evil longings.

Timestamped Evidence

Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil

2025-01-14, day precision · Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer

Transcript

"...your merit may be judged for it garners and winnows good and evil longings okay so what we can do our choice our free..."

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