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He frames the terrace visions as a problem of mechanism: the class can explain dreams and art, but not yet how waking interior images are generated.
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Jiang says the terrace visions are certainly imaginative, but the important question is how imagination actually produces waking visionary experience.
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The anti-solipsism answer is present but not Jiang's chosen endpoint; he passes over it in favor of a stronger beauty-to-virtue account.
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He justifies that confidence by saying his method is to uncover Dante's psychology, heart, and mind rather than simply repeat scholarly commentary.
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A student tests Jiang's idea by asking whether faith exists only when the mind determines itself to believe something into existence.
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Another student proposes that logic is a normal, theory-summarizing mode of thought, while imagination emerges when the mind departs from ordinary states and starts thinking differently.
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Jiang says the God metaphor turns the universe into the mind or dream of God.
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The body metaphor opens a further question about cognition by implying that the universe can receive ideas and enact them through something like a brain or mind.
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"All right, so it shows the ignorance of wrath, of anger. And the last example is also from the Bible, the story of Saint..."
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"No, no, like, but how does he see them? Before, how did he have his visions? Dream. Dreaming was the first, right? Then it..."
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"You guys understand. He's actually seeing them as he walks, all right? This is like lucid daydreaming. How does this happen, okay? We understand..."
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"Okay, it's possible, okay? But that makes no sense. Reflected light, doesn't it blind you? I mean, I guess it blinds him, and then..."
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"Um, maybe it's just imagination, but it's another level. It's a higher level of imagination."
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"...this idea, okay? So we're trying to figure out how the mind, the mind works today, okay? And who studies psychology? Okay, you study..."
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"Yes? I guess fundamentally it's proof that other minds exist. It's against solipsism."
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"What draws you to the art? Beautiful. It's beautiful. It's beauty, do you understand? You see how this works? The beauty shocks your emotions...."
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"arrogant statement okay so i first discovered dante four years ago when i was forced to teach dante for this great books course i..."
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"heart of dante the mind of dante and um i feel as though when i teach dante i'm channeling dante i think dante is..."
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"is kind of thing you have to determine your mind to believe it so it will exist or if you don't believe it and..."
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"...It's what people think when they're in a normal state of mind, and when they go crazy, or when they... Just something happened to..."
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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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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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