Jiang's preferred mode for entering Dante: a way of seeing that exceeds school-exam logic and reason.
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intuition and imagination
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"...are going to embrace Dante, we have to use our intuition and imagination, okay? That's something that will become much more clear as we..."
"...material world. But when we go into the realm of intuition and imagination, we can go beyond the constraints of the material world and..."
"it it's because of the limitations of our own intuition and imagination it doesn't make sense okay so if we're a bit confused it's..."
"...question so yesterday you emphasized to us repeatedly the importance of imagination and intuition now according to my limited understanding one of the criticisms..."
"...were truly to embrace Dante, we have to use our intuition and imagination, okay? That's something that will become much more clear as we..."
"...material world, but when we go into the realm of intuition and imagination, we can go beyond the constraints of the material world and..."
"...understand it it's because of the limitations of our own intuition and imagination it doesn't make sense okay so if we're a bit confused..."
"...service. To my audience, because whereas what I specialize in is intuition, imagination, taking complex things and combine them into a clear, simple narrative...."
"...a lot of this is being driven by inspiration and intuition and imagination okay right so when we go back to hamlet the soliloquy..."
"...major difference is that pre -modern science relies entirely on intuition and imagination, okay? You don't do experiments. You don't have conferences. You don't..."
"It's basically a psychedelic, okay? Today, we don't rely on intuition and imagination. We think this is superstitious. We rely mainly on something called..."
"...sort of process or some sort of method. It comes from intuition, imagination, and inspiration, okay? So remember when Einstein, he was just daydreaming..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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.
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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