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Jiang contrasts Dante's action-based and merciful Purgatory with a church system that incentivizes obedience and restricts Heaven to a narrow elite.
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Justice
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Marco Lombardo's central claim, as preserved in the reading, is that blaming heaven for all human motion would abolish free will and therefore moral justice.
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Virgil’s single line on Rhipeus as uniquely just becomes, for Jiang, the seed Dante expands into a full rebuttal: the gods must care about justice after all.
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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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Jiang places Hamlet in Purgatory rather than heaven because Hamlet kills Claudius and therefore still needs repentance, even though his act is not mere vengeance.
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He argues that Hamlet turns vengeance into justice because he investigates Claudius's guilt and stages an open trial before killing him.
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Jiang explains the canto's battlefield souls as evidence that God is both merciful and just: even the violently killed can enter Purgatory if repentance occurs, though their path is delayed.
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Dante's explicit theological question is how prayers for the dead can accelerate blessedness if heaven's rule and justice are not supposed to be changed by mortal request.
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"And it's also action -based rather than having to pay money or... Exactly, okay?"
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"So yeah, so it incentivizes action, right? Whereas this system, it's really about obedience, right? It incentivizes obedience. Obey what the church says and..."
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"he replied and then he added i pray you to pray for me when you're above and i to him i pledge my faith..."
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"every motion if this were so then your free will would be destroyed and there would be no equity and joy for doing good..."
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"Virgil writes, uniquely the most just of all the Trojans, the most faithful preserver of equity, but the gods decided otherwise."
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"...which being taught return to plague the inventor this even -handed justice commends the ingredients"
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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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"...being taught return to plague the inventor and this even -handed justice commends the ingredients of our poison chalice to our own lives so..."
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"...hand just tried revenge right but he also tried to make justice for for his father so what do you think about hamlet for..."
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"...hamlet it was not vengeance it was not murder it was justice the reason why is that first hamlet conducted an investigation to confirm..."
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"...wanted to turn the act of vengeance into an act of justice okay and again i don't want to get too much into hamlet..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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