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He argues that the judgment the play invites about Macbeth's ambition is inseparable from a sequence of interlocking actions, not just an isolated moral label.
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Judgment
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He says Macbeth explicitly enacts judgment on himself in the speech, since the language of 'cases,' 'bloody instructions,' and the poison chalice shows that Macbeth knows the murder is wrong even before he commits it.
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He distinguishes Shakespeare from Dante by arguing that Shakespeare usually lets judgments arise from characters and dramatic form rather than from an authorial moral commentary outside the action.
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Another student distinguishes Dante from Shakespeare by saying Dante judges with overt certainty, whereas Shakespeare observes human action more than he legislates a final moral architecture.
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Jiang says Dante's God is not transactional: divine judgment is not a bargain and Beatrice would have no power to cut a deal that suspends the moral structure of the universe.
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He says people are judged for what they do and what they believe, not for offering God a deal or negotiating around consequence.
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The prophecy about the grandson becoming a hunter of wolves marks the canto as not just social criticism but forward-looking moral judgment.
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Jiang rejects detectability as the final explanation because God does not face human evidentiary limits and therefore cannot be fooled by hidden crime.
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"And the moral of the story is that judgment I think we're asked to make about the play, about Macbeth's ambition, goes with a..."
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"...the life to come but in these cases we still have judgment here that we but teach bloody instructions which being taught return to..."
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"of our poison chalice to our own lips he's here in double trust that's Duncan first design his kinsmen and his subject strong both..."
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"...place no consequences but then he comes to the idea of judgment in these cases and cases is already a legal term our idea..."
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"um i also just from b from having visited wales in certain parts of scotland where the mists are um on a twilight time..."
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"good could triumph over evil but the judgments come from the characters not from the author and maybe that difference is also partly owing..."
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"like the difference is that Dante is more certain in his judgments like he is trying to like he his works have a lot..."
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"important okay in dante's world god is not transactional maybe in our world maybe in the catholic church but god himself is not transactional..."
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"Therefore, the nature of that squalid valley's people has changed, as if they were in Circe's pasture. That river starts with miserable course among..."
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"Okay. Okay. That makes sense. But God knows everything, right? So you can't, you can never hide your crime from God. Uh, yes. Yes."
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"All of it. My King, I'll tell you come what may the whole true story. Greek. I am. I don't deny it. Now that..."
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"Okay. Right. So this is a very long speech. But the idea is with his poetry, he's able to elicit sympathy and that convinced..."
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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.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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...
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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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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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