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Jiang says possessive Virgilian love does not walk away from refusal; it escalates through gifts, luxury, spectacle, and persistence in order to force a yes.
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Pursuit
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Come on. Hello. Bower flowers. Hello. Bower chocolates. Hello, How about buy her a diamond ring? How about buy her a Mercedes? How about..."
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Jiang asks students to treat Virgilian free will as the freedom to pursue what one wants, regardless of the other person's will.
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Student suggestions sharpen one possible logic of gluttony punishment as endless pursuit without satisfaction, such as running forever toward unreachable cake.
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"Come on. Hello. Bower flowers. Hello. Bower chocolates. Hello, How about buy her a diamond ring? How about buy her a Mercedes? How about..."
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"Um, how does Virgil define free will here? What is free will you see this beautiful woman, you talk to her, you buy her..."
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"so it doesn't really matter what she wants or what she wants to do that you have the freedom to pursue her as much..."
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"uh francois oh for virgil is having what he wants and for dante is wanting what he wants can you explain what so for..."
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"imagine having it okay yeah that that's that's right yes okay does someone want to expand on that uh edward did you want to..."
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"life until you're thin right uh yes maybe just put food just out of your range you can see it but you cannot yeah..."
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"a cake in front of you and you're running around as fast as you can but you can never actually touch the cake okay..."
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"...like wow thank you very much to say i have no pursuit in life but i think it's the same idea yeah that's what..."
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"...guino de tacos beast johan and one who drowned when in pursuit he ran there with his outstretched hands was federico novello praying and..."
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"...Sequence. Of. My. Song. But. Now. I. Must. Assist. From. This. Pursuit. In. Verses. Of. Her. Loveliness. Justice. Each. Artist. Who. Has."
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"...The. Poem. He. Does. Say. Right. I. Must. Desist. From. This. Pursuit. In. Verses. Of. Her. Loveliness. Just. As. Each. Artist. Who. Has. Reached...."
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"...two movements, which started out great, the Dominicans with their selfless pursuit of knowledge and the Franciscans with their selfless pursuit of spirituality, why..."
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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 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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