model
The same discourse treats love as the seed of both virtue and punishable acts, making moral failure a distortion of the same force that can also produce good.
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Moral psychology
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diagnosis
Bromwich contrasts 'what's done is done' with 'what's done cannot be undone' to show the shift from dismissing the past to recognizing a fatal moral consequence in action.
definition
He generalizes Macbeth's self-deception into a broader account of ambition: ambition feels like an outside force that takes a person over and strips away the inward capacity to care about right and wrong.
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normative
Jiang says the fundamental error is believing people can rationalize away their sins through thought alone.
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"And he to me, precisely here the love of good that is too tepidly pursued is mended. Here the lazy oar plies harder, and..."
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"Incident coming to a sharp emphasis in the form of character. And what is incident but the illustration of character? I'm going to concentrate..."
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"No contradiction there. But they're said in a very different tenor. The person who says what's done is done, or to use the more..."
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"Tell her exactly what's up. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest Chuck, till thou applaud the deed. One of the, I can only call..."
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"Okay, so there is a fundamental error in your logic. And the fundamental error is that it is up to us to be able..."
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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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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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