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Jiang says the soul is the part of us that desires to return to the whole, and that this return remains our deepest aspiration even when we are ignorant of it.
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Ignorance
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "No, that's the complete opposite of what I just said. Yes. None of them have souls. Okay. So God creates the universe. The universe..."
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A student begins from the premise that humans do not know everything while God does, as part of an answer about how Dante can write what God cannot simply hand over.
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Jiang explains envy as ignorance of the universe's real structure, because people mistake reality for a zero-sum material contest instead of a spiritual order where sharing increases good.
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The quoted reply says ignorance prevents repentance until the end of life for many souls, which is why Statius treats conversion as illumination rather than mere moral compliance.
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Socratic dialogue is presented as a method for exposing ignorance by slowly revealing the flaws in statements people believe are self-evidently true.
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"No, that's the complete opposite of what I just said. Yes. None of them have souls. Okay. So God creates the universe. The universe..."
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"Oh, oh, I know. We don't know things. God is all -knowing. God knows everything. So we can..."
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"Okay, stop. Okay, all right. So what, so there are in the terrace of envy. And here people must expiate themselves of their envy..."
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"If someone has an apple, you don't have it. If you have that apple, someone else doesn't have it. But in the spiritual world,..."
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"How many are to rise again with heads cropped close, whom ignorance prevents from reaching repentance in and at the end of life? And..."
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"If citizens come together and they deliberate and act with in good faith, then the world will be a better place. So that is..."
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"He would spend all day arguing with people in something called a Socratic dialogue. And showing the flaws in your reasoning. Showing you why..."
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"A ball, right? So you're saying the earth is like a ball. Is that correct? It's all around, okay? And how do you know..."
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"All right, so it shows the ignorance of wrath, of anger. And the last example is also from the Bible, the story of Saint..."
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"...lay along the ground who had resumed their customary tears. My ignorance has never struggled so, has never made me long so much to..."
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"...how many are to rise again with heads crop clothes whom ignorance prevents from reaching repentance in and at the end of life and..."
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"...goods and he to me oh unenlightened creatures how deep the ignorance that hampers you i want you to digest my word on this..."
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