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A student raises the problem of whether direct vision of angels and other deep things would weaken the pilgrim Dante's faith by replacing belief with proof.
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Pilgrim Dante
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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.
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"so like uh Dante has has been shown like these deep things right he has been shown these angels and Beatrice is leading down..."
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"...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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"...of faith presumably does. And they specifically ask Dante, like the pilgrim Dante, about the coin's alloy. And since it's heavy, even though it's..."
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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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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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