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Jiang glosses Adrian as a pope who climbed the ladder of power through ambition and now lies on the ground in repentance on the terrace of greed.
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Key Notes
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He presents Lady Macbeth as someone who deliberately imagines herself outside nature, almost witch-like, in order to convert Macbeth's hesitant ambition into efficient action and the pursuit of power.
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One student says Dante helps modern readers see money, power, AI, and technology as variations on old human patterns, recalling them to history and truth rather than leaving them trapped in confusion.
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Another student finds Dante reassuring because purgatorial mercy lets even powerful people retain some hope if they have a good heart, a latitude the student does not perceive in Shakespeare.
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The class distinguishes graft from simple greed by tying it to entitlement and misuse of position rather than only desire for a particular object like money.
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Jiang adds that in America media workers can hold unusually strong power, which makes this hijacking dynamic socially consequential at scale.
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The reading presents giants as creatures whose combination of acute intelligence, evil will, and massive power makes ordinary human defense impossible.
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A student proposes that Lucifer's exceptional closeness to God's power may explain why he came nearest to betrayal even without ordinary free will.
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"...ambitious, he did whatever he could to climb the ladder of power, and now, after he repented, he is forced to basically lie on..."
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"...great um gift that it will bring them the gift of power the gift of being king and queen and she has said when..."
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"macbeth sees herself as witch -like sees herself as in some way supernatural outside nature she can't live up to that aspiration but it's..."
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"...because before the Dante's I just feel confused about money about power about AI about technology and all of these things I think this..."
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"...a nice thought that Dante allows even people who have great power a little bit of leeway as long as they have a good..."
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"the mentality why do they engage in graft uh yes oh yeah you mean stealing right i think stealing is kind of thing that..."
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"ahead yeah well also when you steal you decide that this thing that you steal is more deserving for you than the owner like..."
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"and the owner doesn't really but why why do you deserve it well maybe pride okay yes anyone else"
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"yes at the back i feel like for greed you are kind of more focusing on like a specific thing for example like money..."
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"variety of stuff but what is grab you're selling from who graft has to come from a position of"
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"Any... Yes? Yeah, because I heard in America the highest hierarchical crime is not killer. It's just the people who manipulate others and try..."
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"...not true in China. Media people in China have actually no power. But in America, if you work in the media, you're really, really..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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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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