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Jiang's description of what elite university politics are actually proving beneath the official educational mission.
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social worth
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...
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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...
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Jiang describes elite universities as social hierarchies where secret societies certify social worth, and says he was too naive and marginalized to play that game.
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"...And the very point of a university is to prove your social worth. But I didn't know that. I mean, like, I was just..."
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"The entire point of Yale is to read good books, talk to your professors and open your mind. And so that's what I did..."
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"So I'm in the class of 1999. And apparently, the class of 1999 was a mediocre class, and that's about how I got in...."
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"...love is there, that good confers a greater measure of eternal worth. And when there are more souls above love, there's more to love..."
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"...all sense of shame within my house, my line was not worth much but did no wrong. There its rapine began with lies and..."
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"...but they do not possess. His best bequest. How seldom human worth ascends from branch to branch, and this is willed by him who..."
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"...the noble action of a Roman prince was presented, he whose worth had urged on Gregory to his great victory. I mean the emperor..."
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"...may you, Benevolent, forgive and do not judge us by our worth. Try not our strength so easily subdued against the ancient foe but..."
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"...may you benevolent forgive and do not judge us by our worth. Try, oh, sorry. Line 25, beseeching thus good penitence for us and..."
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"...of the house of Calboli, but no one has inherited his worth. It's not his kin alone, between the Po and the mountains, and..."
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"...debate okay uh yes i think one thing that would be worth exploring"
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"...I pray you and repray and master, may my prayer be worth a thousand pleas. Do not forbid my waiting"
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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...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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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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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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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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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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