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A weak-willed mode of sin in upper hell; Jiang glosses it as not taking oneself seriously and therefore harming mainly oneself.
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incontinence
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...ethics treats of those three dispositions that strikes at heaven's will, incontinence and malice, and mad bestiality? And how the fault that is the..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...ethics treats of those three dispositions that strikes at heaven's will, incontinence and malice, and mad bestiality? And how the fault that is the..."
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The reading groups upper-hell sins under incontinence, while Jiang paraphrases incontinence as not taking oneself seriously and lacking will.
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"...ethics treats of those three dispositions that strikes at heaven's will, incontinence and malice, and mad bestiality? And how the fault that is the..."
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"...hell partitioned in this way? And Virgil says, well, because of incontinence, malice, and mad bestiality. Okay. Incontinence is basically, you're not taking yourself..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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