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The seminar's live problem in this packet: whether desire is soulful willing of the good, bodily impulse, domination, or the ambiguous beginning of love.
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love versus lust
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Key Notes
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Jiang insists the distinction is not clean because lust can appear to lead into love, which is why Dante himself is confused in the Francesca episode.
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Jiang keeps the seminar's central difficulty alive by asking how love is found in the first place if lust often appears to be its beginning.
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"and lust uh yes and speaking from definition one is an emotion a thing of soul and the other thing is a thing that..."
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"they have as a human right all right so let's carry let's kill this further okay we're trying to figure out what the difference..."
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"maybe another part is um i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know lust..."
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"confused right because it's just like like how do you find love in the first place right i mean like yeah yes"
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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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