mission

The governing purpose of the platform: learn to love Dante, spread Dante, and let that imaginative revival restore hope in a damaged world.

The higher commanded purpose that must override emotion, pity, erotic attachment, and intuitive mercy in Jiang's reading of Aeneas.

Frankist commitment to creating a new world and ending the age, valued above money.

He defines faith as imagination: believing in God, divine generosity, mercy, and one's own mission without proof.

For Jiang, the key evidence of Virgil's emotional shift is that he forgets to mention Dante and the guiding mission and instead narrates only his own passage and dignity.

Jiang says deep reading of Dante yields a mission to spread Dante's vision of love and to change the world for the better, accompanied by gratitude and responsibility.

Jiang reads Virgil as telling Dante to stop fixating on guilt over Cavalcante and stay focused on his mission toward Beatrice.

For Jiang, Virgil's failure to thank the angel or ask for more help shows that he is obsessed with being the hero and puts ego ahead of the mission to get Dante to heaven.

Jiang agrees that modern elites can also narrate their ego as a world-improving mission, so self-importance by itself does not distinguish Dante from them.

He argues that helping other people connect to God increases happiness in the world, making spiritual mediation the core human mission.

He presents the mission of the class as proving to the world that anyone anywhere, regardless of culture or age, can read and love Dante.