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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is intentionality in the universe. They are all part of God's grand design. Remember? The metaphor that Beatrice uses is the body. Right? God..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is intentionality in the universe. They are all part of God's grand design. Remember? The metaphor that Beatrice uses is the body. Right? God..."
Jiang says the most important lesson is that the universe has intentionality: through Beatrice's body metaphor, God is the mind and all creatures are parts moving within a grand design, which makes exile and isolation less frightening.
"...is intentionality in the universe. They are all part of God's grand design. Remember? The metaphor that Beatrice uses is the body. Right? God..."
"...stopping movement. Okay? But for Plato, things are eternal. There's a grand design, and nothing that changes really matters. It doesn't really affect the..."
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...
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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