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He describes the terraces as corrective inversions: pride is humbled, wrath is blinded by smoke, gluttony starves, lust burns, and greed is forced to crawl.
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Greed
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The inverted ordering of lust, gluttony, greed, and anger between Inferno and Purgatory is presented as a deliberate structural clue to what Purgatory is doing.
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The ascent can also be read as a dissipation of ego, moving from self-love in pride toward being captured by external things in greed, gluttony, and lust.
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Jiang's gloss is that greed, gluttony, and lust occupy the upper terraces because they are forms of love gone astray toward the wrong object.
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Canto 20 casts greed as an ancient wolf whose endless hunger devours the world and prompts a plea for a coming force that will drive it away.
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The greedy rehearse praise-worthy examples by day and anti-examples by night, cycling through figures like Pygmalion, Midas, Achan, Sapphira, and Crassus as moral pedagogy before the mountain trembles.
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Jiang says Statius treats wastefulness and greed as opposite extremes that collapse into the same moral structure.
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The class distinguishes graft from simple greed by tying it to entitlement and misuse of position rather than only desire for a particular object like money.
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"...lot okay you're active you're running around run a lot for greed you're crawling okay why you're crawling because before on Earth you were..."
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"you are crawling uh with Raph what happens is you're blinded by smoke and the idea is that your anger blinds you right and..."
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"up perfectly right so we've been in paradise we know what paradise is about we've been to hell we don't we know what hell..."
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"inferno or hell because lust is uh at the very first in inferno but it's at the very top in"
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"...this way where in In Inferno, the four sins, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, they're inverted in Purgatory. Why would he do that? Yes?"
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"...go up? So, pride, you're loving yourself. And by the end, greed, gluttony, and lust, you're loving the thing. Yes. And so, you're getting..."
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"...terraces are the three, um, um, terraces of gluttony, lust, and greed. Okay? Greed, gluttony, and lust are the last, are the top three...."
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"Canto 20. Against a better will, the will fights weak, therefore to please him, though against my pleasure, I drew my unquenched sponge out..."
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"I see him mocked a second time. I see the vinegar and gall renewed and he slain between two slaves who are still alive...."
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"And each of us recalls the foolish Achan, how he had robbed the spoils so that the anger of Joshua still seems to sting..."
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"sadius why are you in the terrace of avarice and sadius replied okay you may think that i was greedy in life but i..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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