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Jiang distinguishes Paradiso from Inferno by saying Paradiso is vision or revelation, while Inferno is prophecy understood as social critique rather than fortune-telling.
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Social critique
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "really have uh faith hope and love okay does that make sense so that helps us explain why lust is a problem and how..."
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Jiang reads Dante's treatment of women as a subtle social critique of how the Catholic Church and society oppress women.
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"really have uh faith hope and love okay does that make sense so that helps us explain why lust is a problem and how..."
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"...is not one of like like fortune telling but one of social critique so that's what the inferno is it's fundamentally a social critique..."
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"Okay. So this is a social critique. Right? He's criticizing directly how women are oppressed in society by the Catholic Church. Does that make..."
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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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