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Jiang says Dante would not make pride the ultimate ground of the sins; he would make ego the basis, understood as how one perceives oneself and one's agency in the universe.
Jiang accepts priming as one valid account and compares it to how sunlight or music can predispose the whole day toward better or worse feeling.
Jiang identifies the student's experience as a transformation in worldview and self-perception rather than a minor opinion change.
He argues that what matters most is not university choice or money but how a person perceives themselves and their place in the world.
"Right. Yeah. So, um, so Donnie would not say pride. He would say ego, right? It's the ego. That's the basis of everything. So..."
"...So a lot of it is priming, a lot of it's self -perception, okay? Yes?"
"that's great okay so so this is an example of transformation right your worldview your worldview has changed the way you perceive yourself the..."
"themselves they'll be fine no matter what okay so it's not really about what university you should go to it's not really about how..."
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...
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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 farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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