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obedience
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Jiang defines 'peace through strength' as hegemony: America creates peace by being feared, and fear produces obedience.
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Jiang reads La Commedia as a response to Virgil's Aeneid and to a Catholic Church model built around duty, piety, obedience, institutional mediation, and suspicion of love.
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God, as perfect love, generosity, forgiveness, and beauty, cannot require obedience as a condition for heaven because free will and reciprocity contradict each other.
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Virgil created hell through the Aeneid by creating human emotions organized around piety, obedience, love as disease, hatred, empire, and enemy destruction.
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People are not in hell because they did bad things; they are in hell because they desire hell, think it is best for them, and are happy there.
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Earlier in Aeneas's story, the gods repeatedly intervene whenever he follows his own emotions or ideas; at the end he supplies the divine will himself.
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Fully pious Aeneas must abandon pity, emotions, and his own soul in order to serve the gods.
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Jiang says modern education has trained students in utility, obedience, and compliance, but not in love.
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"Okay, stop, okay, all right. So an important sentence here is, we will support a policy of actual peace through strength. Okay. What this..."
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"They believed in a democratic spirit to poetry. And that made them distinct from the people of their time. La Commedia is a response..."
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"And this led to many wars. It led also to a splintering of the Catholic Church. And Dante found himself embroiled into a lot..."
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"Okay, so a lot of La Commedia, Divine Comedy, is dialogue, okay? There's a speaker and there's a listener. And this is an important..."
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"God will always give you free will. And free will and reciprocity are a contradiction, okay? If I make you do something in order..."
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"...through the Inead. Right? Inead is a poetry that emphasizes piety, obedience. It emphasizes how love is a disease. It emphasizes the importance of..."
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"Okay. So two words that you will see a lot in Dante are will and desire. Okay? Will and desire. Because will and desire..."
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"And this is a really important idea if you are trying to understand Dante. Free will is a fundamental truth of the universe. You..."
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"Each time this happened previously, the gods had to intervene, right? So remember how Aeneas is back in Troy and he's witnessed the killing..."
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"You must fulfill the mission. Again, when Aeneas is with Dido, he just wants to stay with Dido and build up Carthage. And so..."
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"...of anti -love because you've received an education in utility, right? Obedience, compliance. But what you have not received is an education in love...."
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"Okay? And that's what the great books are about. The great books, even Homer and Dante, they really think deeply about what love is..."
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