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For Jiang's Dante, the worst sin is treachery that pressures other people into treachery and thereby drives them away from God.
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Sin hierarchy
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Jiang argues that lust, gluttony, greed, and wrath are things you do to yourself, while violence, fraud, and treachery are things you do to other people.
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Below the Styx, Jiang says the sinners are no longer merely making life miserable but disrupting the fundamental structure of the universe.
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Jiang distinguishes self-directed sins from sins against others and treats violence, fraud, and treachery as escalating because they damage other souls.
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"The million people die. It's not a big deal. They lose their bodies to come back later on, but there's a thousand people who,..."
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"the difference is um amongst these different sins and i mean the most basic difference is lust gluttony greed and wrath there are things..."
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"drowned in the rivers okay all right so when you read the divine comedy each of these different realms whether they are uh inferno..."
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"to stop right so it's almost like rain raining on you and it can never stop okay so and again the purpose is to..."
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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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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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