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The concept raised when prophecy seems to imply that events are already ordered by God before they occur.
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predetermination
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...it up yours you your idea is that dante believes in predetermination by god"
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Jiang says the class now faces a paradox: free will is a fundamental law of the universe, but prophecy seems to imply predetermination.
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A student argues that predetermination requires an ordered relation between what comes first and what comes next, not mere undifferentiated determination.
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"...it up yours you your idea is that dante believes in predetermination by god"
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"...say that if there's a prophecy then there has to be predetermination so how can we make sense of this paradox is this a..."
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"...right because because if there's no ordinal relationship between those things predetermination is just determination there's no what's what comes first and what comes..."
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"So something I'm curious about is Dante's attitude towards predetermination. If you look at this passage, so he's basically prophesying to himself. At his..."
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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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