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3 timestamped hits 2 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-06-17, day precision Aliases: greater-harms

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Greater harm

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "and relative morality what's the difference between these two things so i don't know like absolutely no matter what it's gonna happen but contingent..."

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Topic Scope And Freshness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "and relative morality what's the difference between these two things so i don't know like absolutely no matter what it's gonna happen but contingent..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Paradise Begins Where Logic Fails (2026-06-17, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Paradise Begins Where Logic Fails; Paradise As A School For Imagination And Will.

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Key Notes

Classroom analogy on 2026-06-17.

evidence

A student links contingent will to tragic compromise in 'Silence,' where priests abandon a visible vocation to protect Japanese believers from greater harm.

Timestamped Evidence

Paradise Begins Where Logic Fails

2026-06-17, day precision · Dante #1: Paradise Cantos 1-5

Transcript

"and relative morality what's the difference between these two things so i don't know like absolutely no matter what it's gonna happen but contingent..."

Paradise Begins Where Logic Fails

2026-06-17, day precision · Dante #1: Paradise Cantos 1-5

Transcript

"...but the contingent will through fear that its resistance might bring greater harm consent therefore picarda means the absolute will when he she speaks..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Paradise Begins Where Logic Fails

2026-06-17, day precision · claims, semantic-ref, alias-match

Reading

Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.

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