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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...universe but that you have to build on these cornerstones by reasoning and syllogism so where does faith come from so he's saying that..."
A student proposes that for Dante faith functions as a cornerstone or premise: you first accept God's existence by faith and then build later reasoning on that basis.
Jiang rejects the equation of faith with hypothesis because a hypothesis can be proven wrong, whereas faith is the starting assumption from which all further reasoning must come.
Another student says the extended dialogue lets readers reason their way through Dante's experience instead of being handed a conclusion without participation.
"...universe but that you have to build on these cornerstones by reasoning and syllogism so where does faith come from so he's saying that..."
"um can i interpret it as just fully committing to a hypothesis like in dante dante's terms fully committing to the hypothesis that fully..."
"hypothesis can be proven wrong oh that's true that's true right the faith is is the assumption the the the thing from which everything..."
"I think it's just for the reader to, so the reader can reason it out through Dante's experience in heaven. So as a reader,..."
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...
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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