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Jiang says this free-will-first structure contradicts mainstream church theology and would have been revolutionary around the year 1300.
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Revolutionary
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Jiang calls this logic revolutionary because it says love, kindness, and local bonds matter more than public fame for a soul's posthumous good.
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Jiang marks this idea as historically revolutionary because medieval believers broadly accepted the pope as God's representative with power over heaven.
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Jiang presents the frozen lake at the center of hell as one of Dante's most revolutionary paradoxes because readers expect fire and brimstone instead.
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"Yes? Would this kind of be in contradiction to people like Anselm at the time who were really interested in describing how God was..."
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"...church theology. But this again is why this is a radical revolutionary poem for its time. It's not so radical for us. But for..."
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"okay that's what donna's saying here it's revolutionary right you mean as famous you want you can have a trillion dollars you can be..."
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"history to hear these ideas would be revolutionary right because at this time in history everyone did believe the pope was the representative of..."
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"For it is not a task to take in jest, to show the base of all the universe, not for a tongue that cries..."
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"...is a frozen lake. Okay. And so he's just shocking. He's revolutionary. So this is something that we'll think a lot more about tomorrow...."
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"...yeah explain to me how dante is able to have such revolutionary ideas in his time right because like these ideas that he's presenting..."
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"...that make sense? Okay, so that's what Dante is saying. It's revolutionary, okay? It can really counteract the point that Virgil makes, which is,..."
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"...are the bad things that are gonna happen um dante is revolutionary because he was able"
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"...trumps the catholic church and that authority yeah and this is revolutionary at"
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"...unjust okay and again at this time in history it's pretty revolutionary you guys know the story of romeo and juliet right well"
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"...spend more time in purgatory okay right so again this is revolutionary for this time in history where the ex communication doesn't really matter..."
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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 Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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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 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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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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