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Jiang's term for inward psychology that does not find truth because meaning is relational.
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navel-gazing
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 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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"...gets us nowhere, okay? It's just you looking into yourself. It's navel -gazing. And from that, you learn no truth at all. But that's..."
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"...Mars and Pallas, still armed as they surrounded Joe, their father, gazing upon the giant's scattered limbs. I saw bewildered Nimrod at the foot..."
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"...Deonira, and of himself wrought vengeance for himself. In the middle, gazing at his chest, is mighty Chiron, tutor of Achilles. The third is..."
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"...to help you let your sight fly around this garden by gazing so that you may be more ready to ascend through god's own..."
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"...cloth allows, and turn our vision to the primal love that gazing at him you may penetrate, as far as that can be his..."
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"...shadow. So was my mind completely wrapped, intent, steadfast, and motionless, gazing, and it grew even more enkindled as it watched. Whoever sees that..."
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"...farther reach. At this, my lady, seeing me set free from gazing upward, told me, let your eyes. Look down and see how far..."
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"...shadow. So is my mind, completely rapt, intent, steadfast, and motionless, gazing in it wither more enkindled as it watched."
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"...wrenching his heart with sobs and grumbling and groans in anguish, gazing out over the barren sea through blinding tears."
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"...going? So was my mind completely wrapped, intent, steadfast, and motionless, gazing, and it would get whoever more enkindled as it watched. He's trained..."
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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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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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