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A student explicitly objects that fatness should not be reduced to gluttony because people are fat for many reasons other than overconsumption.
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Objection
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A student challenges Jiang's flourishing prediction by pointing out that Italy already teaches Dante widely but does not obviously demonstrate the promised result.
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A student challenges Jiang by asking how imagination can belong to humans if God is perfect and supposedly lacks nothing.
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A student objects that parental love cannot simply mean unconditional permission, because being a parent also includes responsibility and correction.
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"this because i find this really upsetting people are fat for a lot of reasons other than gluttony and i think that reducing fat..."
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"any any country any any region that adopts dante as part of the core curriculum would flourish and i would just like to point..."
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"Okay, this might be pushing the point here, but if God is perfect and there's nothing that we have that he doesn't have, then..."
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"Uh, well, uh, I don't, I don't know, but, uh, you know, I'm also a father and, uh, I think my son, I can't..."
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"...like, if you don't believe in this stuff, what are your objections to it? Who is like, this can't possibly exist?"
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"Right? So Bill Clinton removed the left working class objections to this regime. Then Obama was able to. Like, remove the liberal objections. Right?..."
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"...tutors, servants, abuse and ignorance and innocence of children. The obvious objection that we are dealing with sexual fantasies of the child himself, that..."
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"So one major objection is, is it possible you are implanting false memories in your patient? And what he's saying is, okay, well, I..."
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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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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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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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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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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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