love

Not mere feeling but action strong enough to pray for another forever.

Active opposition to injustice rather than passive feeling.

This packet explicitly discusses love in Jiang's lecture framing.

Defined as one's connection to others and tested by whether one increases or reduces their capacity to love.

Jiang defines hope as responsibility and persistence even when outcomes are uncertain, and love as action that prays for another for eternity.

Jiang says Inferno's circles punish ways of disrupting the capacities for faith, love, and hope, which is why Purgatory becomes the difficult unresolved part of the cosmology.

He says Dante's system is hopeful because even bad people can still gain access to Purgatory through repentance, love from others, or prior acts of goodness.

Jiang accepts a love-based map of the terraces in which the lower sins involve too little or failed love and the upper sins involve misdirected or excessive attachment.

A student synthesis Jiang endorses says the challenges of Purgatory all share one root in lack of love, compassion, and imagination, so overcoming one vice can illuminate the others.

Jiang explicitly defines pure divine love as the gift of free will and free choice.

The student summary Jiang affirms divides the sins of Purgatory into perverted love, deficient love, and excessive love, reinforcing love as the master key of the mountain.

The Canto 15 passage defines envy as attachment to earthly goods that diminish when shared, in contrast to heavenly goods that increase with common possession and multiply love.