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Jiang says the biggest paradox is that Cato committed suicide, which in the Catholic theology Dante presents should send him straight to hell among the suicides.
Jiang speculates that Cato killed himself rather than let Caesar humiliate him with clemency, which makes the act look proud and petty rather than spiritually noble.
Canto 13 introduces the second ring of violence as a black, pathless wood inhabited by harpies and by human souls transformed into thorny trees.
Jiang interprets the suicide-tree as a historically known counselor who was virtuous and talented, falsely accused of treason, and then killed himself in despair.
A student says suicide rejects faith, hope, and love and also damages society by impairing other people's capacity to love and connect.
Jiang says suicide is the opposite of faith, hope, and love because it rejects God as savior and turns a gifted person into a destructive example for others.
The canto says suicides are thrown into the seventh circle's wood, sprout where chance drops them, and only recover their bodies as hanging signs of what they cast away.
A student explicitly links Jephthah's daughter to Piccarda by asking how a person can suffer from vows made on her behalf, whether power is the common motive in both stories, and whether the daughter's consent would amount to suicide.
"...most, this is actually the biggest paradox. How did he die? Suicide, right? Suicide. In Catholic theology at this time, suicide goes straight to..."
"I'm not sure how he, why he committed suicide. But I would guess it's because of his honor for, um, whatever, um, the side..."
"I would guess maybe he committed suicide because his side was losing and Caesar was offering clemency to everyone. Right. And so what was..."
"Conto 13. Nessus had not yet reached the other bank when we began to make our way across a wood on which no path..."
"From every side I heard the sound of cries, but I could not see any source for them, so that in my bewilderment I..."
"...forest, and these are people who have killed themselves. They commit suicide. They've committed no other sin but suicide, okay? And what's happened is..."
"So firstly, you're abandoning all of faith, hope, and love. And secondly, similarly to treachery, I think society -wide, it damages other people and..."
"Exactly. That's exactly correct. Yes, first of all, you are supposed to live a life of faith, hope, and love, and this is the..."
"My mind, because of its disdainful temper, believing it could flee disdain through death, made me unjust against my own just self. I swear..."
"At this, the trunk breathed violence. Then that wind became this voice. Ye shall be answered promptly when the savage spirit quits the body..."
"before we move on so life seems to be fraught with minefields of vows that people can make on your behalf so we've got..."
"her father's death would be like a form of suicide i mean is that much of a question"
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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