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Jiang resists the premise that Dante's questions prove ignorance; instead he treats guidance as a different function from raw knowledge.
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For Jiang, the souls in Purgatory are curious because they look around, ask questions, and want to learn from their new surroundings.
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Jiang says entering this new universe naturally produces questions about how the realm works, whether one can remain there, and how ascent happened in the first place.
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Jiang argues that in Dante heaven is not perfection or the end of the story, but another journey and another site for questioning.
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Another student says people will always remain curious about God and that such questions are not fully answered until death.
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The class is not about memorized answers but about asking hard questions and rebuilding oneself through dialogue, debate, and possible future correction.
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The moderator says more live events will follow because many audience questions remained unanswered in the first session.
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Jiang says challenging audience questions force him to think more deeply, so repeated live streams should make the videos better over time.
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"Okay. Let's think. Let's think about this. Okay. Why does he? So let's just assume Dante is a poet. He knows everything. What does..."
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"Okay. You understand they're curious. Okay. Remember, and like, it's very explicit, uh, the line, right? Um, their eyes try, look, look at that..."
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"...hell the souls just didn't talk, right? They talk, they ask questions."
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"Can I stay to me? Yeah. How does this realm work? Yeah?"
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"...we're in a new universe, it raises all sorts of different questions, okay? And so, this is what makes Dante's conception of the universe..."
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"...that people are going to forever have curiosity and, uh, seek questions about God and they will never be answered until we die and..."
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"...is that this is a class not about answers it's about questions okay so what makes this class interesting and special is that we're..."
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"about Zoroastrianism and i made a lot of mistakes so for example i said that Christianity was the first monotheistic religion last um semester..."
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"...monthly check on the answers and problems. here to ask you questions that help you better understand yourself and better understand the world around..."
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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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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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