Glossary
Jiang's shorthand for the logical form Satan uses to justify temptation and overcome resistance.
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syllogism
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yes. He has to provide logical syllogisms, right? Yeah. He has to convince you."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yes. He has to provide logical syllogisms, right? Yeah. He has to convince you."
Key Notes
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Jiang says Satan must present logical syllogisms and convincing argumentation, not just emotional temptation, echoing Milton's rationalized seduction of Eve.
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The reread passage is used to support the idea that unseen deep things have their being in faith and that reasoning must proceed from that faith through syllogisms.
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"Yes. He has to provide logical syllogisms, right? Yeah. He has to convince you."
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"Logically. And he will be very convincing, right? He'll use logic. Just as, you know, in Paradise Lost where Satan convinced Eve, right? It..."
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"...this faith that we must reason deducing what we can from syllogisms without our being able to see more thus faith is also called..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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