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Jiang identifies temptation as Satan's defining function and imagines Lucifer confronting Dante with substitutes for Beatrice such as beauty, riches, and worldly dominion.
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Riches
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"Well, our initial big question is, is he tempting still? Or is he pitiful? Exactly, okay?"
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"...Let me give you a beautiful woman. Let me give you riches. Let me give you a world kingdom, right? That's the most obvious..."
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"...me by several years. Are you so quickly sated with the riches for which you do not fear to take by guile the lovely..."
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"riches but to acquire this life of joyousness sixes and pious urban and calixtus after much lamentation shed their blood we did not want..."
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"...how did he become poor uh he gave away all his riches okay so he's born rich okay he's born into a wealthy family..."
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"So he had riches first, right? And he was giving them all away. Maybe he was trying to do good deeds by giving alms."
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"...measures, swift and slow, make me a judge of what, their riches wear."
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"...benefits Russia tremendously, right? So Putin can take all this oil riches and finance Iran in fighting this war because Russia has the most..."
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"...Russia's a threat, okay? And then it wants to steal the riches and the resources from the Russians, okay? That's the purpose of financing..."
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"...we win this war. When we win this war, all the riches of Troy, all the treasures, will belong to you, Achilles. Again, Manon..."
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"...of putting the break on Russia's economic development and seeing its riches and resources up for grabs under a regime willing to sell anything,..."
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"...these people, Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, they were just rags to riches. It's because of the American dream. It's a land of opportunity. If..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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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...
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