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He argues Macbeth begins internally performing the murder before he consciously resolves to kill Duncan, because the witches' prophecy fuses kingship with usurpation in his imagination.
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Murder
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Key Notes
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The specific soul from Fano asks Dante to carry news back to his homeland so fair prayers can purge him, making intercession the practical mechanism of his request.
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Jiang frames the Francesca episode as two lovers from Dante's own world explaining that they fell in love, eloped, and were both killed by the husband.
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Jiang interprets Beatrice as saying Jephthah should have broken the vow rather than fulfill it through murder, so vow-keeping is not an absolute good when the vow itself is corrupt.
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Jiang rejects the idea that Jephthah's problem can be reduced to treachery against kin by changing the victim from daughter to aunt, neighbor, and stranger, showing that the vow remains evil because it commands murder no matter who walks through the door.
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By the end of the substitution exercise, the class concedes that killing an aunt, neighbor, or stranger would still send Jephthah to hell, which means the core issue is not merely family betrayal but the murderous structure of the vow itself.
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Jiang says many real decisions force principles into collision, as in Alcmaeon having to choose between obeying his father and refusing the murder of his mother.
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Jiang says Nathan's accusation makes David's offense appear to be stealing a wife, but the real crime is that David had Uriah killed.
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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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"...these are the lines from the first act, my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that..."
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"...witch's prophecy might be possible. They don't say you're going to murder Duncan. They say you're going to be king. But this, this concern,..."
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"not curb your will thus i who speak alone before the others beseech you if you ever see the land that lies between romania..."
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"mud the reeds entangled me i fell and there i saw a pool pour from my veins from on the ground wait sorry so..."
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"what are you thinking okay so um virgil says to dante if you really understand how you talk to these different souls okay so..."
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"bible well yeah she he kills the daughter okay according to features is this good or bad no it's not a gray area what..."
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"he should have broken the vow she said wake that vow man i don't care if you make that out of god you get..."
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"but why is treachery so bad why why would treachery be worse than breaking a vow to god i think it's"
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"would be kind of gruesome so um so so let's do the hypothetical where okay the problem is that jetfa um had to kill..."
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"let's kill the end i think he would if he would kill the ant then like he would probably still end up like in..."
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"...how about i don't know stranger yeah the stranger that's still murder that's still so no matter who he kills okay he's still going..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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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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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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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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