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Jiang treats this free-will discussion as the defining debate that prepares for Dante and Virgil's eventual separation.
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Separation
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Jiang says the poem prepares readers to weep at the eventual separation between Dante and Virgil by steadily deepening their mutual affection.
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The same line of argument treats the church's corruption as the greatest sin because it separates people from God and therefore resists forgiveness.
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Jiang explains Dante's confusion in the lower sphere as a question about why these souls are not simply with God but appear separated within a ranked heaven.
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The Aeneid reverses the Odyssey because the gods no longer will the lovers' reunion; they will Aeneas and Creusa's separation for the sake of Rome.
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Jiang names the first major difference between modern and pre-modern minds as separation from nature versus belonging to nature.
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"...debate is gonna mark, um, when Dante and Virgil have their separation. Okay. So let's figure out why Dante and Virgil, they must separate...."
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"conflict between the two but there's also real deep affection between the two and it's very much real okay and and we know what's..."
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"Throughout what we've read in the Divine Comedy, the main belief of Dante is that we should, as humans, we can connect to the..."
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"their vows were not fulfilled okay so dante is um in the spears and he sees people and he's completely confused by this because..."
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"Again, this is very different from the Odyssey, where the Odyssey is really about a journey of two people, Penelope and Odysseus, to find..."
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"If Jupiter demands us to sacrifice ourselves, then we must do so, okay? And so, this reverses the Odyssey, right? Where the gods willed..."
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"sound might betray their presence to some person or thing not of the forest they stood there quiet and still and it struck me..."
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"mind is what we consider modern and their mind is what we consider pre -modern okay what's the first major difference between I okay..."
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"that surprise him exactly okay so here's the first big difference why do we think that nature is dangerous why do they not think..."
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"...unity, okay? Does that make sense, guys? Time and space create separation, but once you move out of time and space, it creates unity...."
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"...figure out what causes this distance okay what causes this distance separation between reason and knowledge they didn't think they needed faith it's faith..."
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"...to unify society is money, right? And money leads to the separation of selfishness, right? That's why you can't no longer be, change the..."
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