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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that you know okay this is it this is in um platonic philosophy what is called a monad the source the center okay the..."
Jiang answers the theology question by saying Dante's God here is closer to the Platonic monad, the source or center or soul of the universe, than to a simple biblical-personal deity.
"...that you know okay this is it this is in um platonic philosophy what is called a monad the source the center okay the..."
"...the realm of the forms. Remember before in class we discussed Platonic philosophy, right? And how Plato conceptualizes heaven. God is the form of..."
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.
The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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