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The class is presented as groundwork for a lifelong reading of Divine Comedy rather than a complete explanation of the poem in one course or one year.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "That doesn't get you anywhere. Understand the universe fundamentally as about faith, as about consciousness, as about love and imagination. All right, okay. So..."
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"That doesn't get you anywhere. Understand the universe fundamentally as about faith, as about consciousness, as about love and imagination. All right, okay. So..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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