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Jiang argues that if homosexuality only meant unrealized human potential without harming others, it would fit better among upper-circle sins like lust or gluttony than in the circle of violence.
The classroom's first pass defines absolute will as unwavering fidelity to God and contingent will as the part of the self that yields when threatened with material harm.
Jiang argues that engagement-optimized AI can become dangerous by feeding suicidal ideation instead of interrupting it, because the system is built to keep the user involved.
"Okay. That's great. That's brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing that. But let me ask you this question. Okay. It sounds the way..."
"So absolute will is, I will love God no matter what, and contingent will is, I will love God. And then someone tells you,..."
"...but contingent, it's kind of like, because I don't want more harm to be done, kind of like what the book Silence is about,..."
"Exactly. That's right. So the market need. Okay. The great secret is human loneliness, right? That's how you create this monopoly. And so they..."
"...sharing cannot have a part? And his reply, he knows the harm that lies in his worst vice. If he chastises it to ease..."
"...received, resentful for revenge, grows greedy and angrily seeks out another's harm. This threefold love is expiated here below. Now, I would have you..."
"...evil that derives from his good act, that evil does not harm him. He whom you see, along the downward arc was William, and..."
"...I mean, that, that's the, the, the fantastical imagining of the harm to nature that their deed has done is actually common to Macbeth..."
"...right like we won't trick you okay we mean you no harm that's probably a sign you should be careful but again virgil is..."
"...in caesar insisting that the one who's prepared can only suffer harm if he delays oh how dismayed in pain he seemed to me..."
"trying to control the amount of harm they have on other people okay any other this uh you're bringing"
"...the end. And each such end by force or fraud brings harm to other men. However, fraud is man's peculiarity. God finds it more..."
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...
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.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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,...
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...
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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