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In this passage, the Great Books are works that strengthen the reader's connection to the universe and, in Jiang's formulation, allow contact with God itself.
Texts that contain a universe and let the reader access universal secrets, enter a new universe, and create a universe.
Books like Homer, Dante, and Plato that Jiang treats as foundational tools for learning what it means to be human.
Plato, Homer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare and similar works treated as portals into meaning, happiness, and divine consciousness.
Jiang presents Dante as 'the greatest writer of all time' and frames the class as potentially life-transforming for participants.
He says he wants to use the platform to start an education movement around the world and promote fields such as game theory, cricket history, and the Great Books.
Jiang defines beauty as connection to the divine: a glimpse of permanent reality that changes a person for the better by shocking them into a new world.
Divine Comedy is not meant to function as the Bible but to provoke the reader's own journey, and repeated rereading deepens understanding and changes how one lives and sees oneself.
Jiang defines Divine Comedy first and foremost as a portal into the mind of God and uses that as his working definition of what a great book is.
He describes his pedagogical project as presenting minority interpretive frames for students to work through themselves rather than delivering settled scholarship.
The class is not meant to certify that students have mastered the great books, but to begin a lifetime of entering them line by line.
The great books, especially Homer and Dante, are presented as an education in what love is because love is where God is.
"are we live okay good morning we are live in beijing uh welcome to our very first youtube live stream first i would like..."
"It's something that I'll remember for the rest of my life. So thank you guys for all your love. And, as a person, I..."
"Game theory, cricket history, the great books. I want to promote all these ideas. And I would love to partner with people to promote..."
"...you into a new reality. And so beauty would include the great books, Homer, Dante. It could include an experience that you have that..."
"so the thing to understand about Divine Comedy is that it's not meant to be the Bible. It's meant to inspire you to embark..."
"...portal into the mind of God okay and that's what a great book is all right okay so enjoy divine comedy it is the..."
"Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, I think the great books were designed to be, first and foremost, human. If you want to know what..."
"So I do this a lot. You give memorable abridgements of the history of ideas and imagination. What needs underlying is the amount that..."
"...very important for us to understand occult ideas embedded in the great books such as paradise lost. Okay. But again, this is a very..."
"...just add this at the end. If you could recommend one book to everyone, what would it be?"
"Well, I mean, Divine Comedy is the greatest book ever written. It is literally a word from God. So Dante was channeling the universe..."
"And it just forever transforms you. So The Iliad."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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