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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Paradise, Canto 11. Oh, senseless cares of mortals, how deceiving are syllogistic reasonings that bring your wings to flight so low to earthly things...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Paradise, Canto 11. Oh, senseless cares of mortals, how deceiving are syllogistic reasonings that bring your wings to flight so low to earthly things...."
In Jiang's reading, the line names intellectual activity that has become earthbound and self-serving rather than oriented toward truth and God. The kind of intellectual maneuvering Jiang associates here with using the mind instrumentally for power rather than spiritually for truth.
"Paradise, Canto 11. Oh, senseless cares of mortals, how deceiving are syllogistic reasonings that bring your wings to flight so low to earthly things...."
"Okay. So here, Dante is criticizing academic studies, right? Okay? What is his concern about academic studies at this time? What does he mean?..."
"Yeah, exactly. Okay? So the idea is syllogistic reasonings, okay? Rather than use your mind to pursue God and the truth. Yes? Did you..."
"Exactly. Okay? That's what everyone agrees on, right? This is a problem with theology, with academics at this point in history. Quite honestly, it's..."
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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