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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...rejects the materialism of the Catholic Church, obviously. And basically, the pilgrim Dante is alive here. He is flesh and blood here. And yet..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...rejects the materialism of the Catholic Church, obviously. And basically, the pilgrim Dante is alive here. He is flesh and blood here. And yet..."
The same student answers that Dante's real goal is not material pleasure but spiritual good, using the pilgrim's ascent through heaven while still in the flesh as evidence.
"...rejects the materialism of the Catholic Church, obviously. And basically, the pilgrim Dante is alive here. He is flesh and blood here. And yet..."
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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