intuition

A provisional class answer that Jiang pushes beneath until he identifies emotion or felt perception as the deeper faculty relevant to Heaven.

The non-test-like mode Jiang says is required for reading the Divine Comedy rightly.

A mode of apprehending Dante that Jiang contrasts with analytic logic and formal exam-style reasoning. The inner guide Jiang says readers should follow once they stop treating logic as the sole route to understanding. Named by Jiang as a faculty that must take over when logic and science reach their boundary. In this packet intuition is described both as whole-bodied, pre-conscious apprehension and as the best guide for Dantean truth. Paired with faith as the faculty that recognizes timeless truth without reducing it to formal proof. A faculty Jiang treats as a legitimate guide to truth in reading Dante, to be trusted alongside imagination rather than overridden by classroom compliance.

The felt inner guidance Jiang says reveals purpose even when explicit memory of that purpose is absent.

The class position Jiang ratifies is that one can still follow intuition toward what is good and right without doctrinal knowledge of heaven.

Jiang says uncanny anticipatory contact is common enough in ordinary life to count as support for a universal unconscious.

Jiang says Dante would not give an absolute rule about modern jobs or servitude; the right action depends on a person's concrete situation and intuition.

He explicitly rejects absolute principles here, saying that Dante's judgment must be individualized rather than reduced to a single universal command.

Jiang says that if someone does not understand themselves as a slave, then their condition may be morally acceptable, but if they do experience it as slavery they should leave.

Jiang says Dante would know Aristotelian telos but diverges from Aristotle by treating true purpose as something to be discovered inwardly rather than simply assigned by society's expectations.

Jiang frames Dante's speech as a threshold event because fear is no longer merely inward intuition; it becomes spoken resistance to Virgil's judgment.

In response to the question about ineffability, Jiang says Dante rejects the idea that God is finally inaccessible and instead believes humans have a direct connection to God through intuition and imagination.