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Jiang says the class should understand Dante thematically rather than just factually, and he frames teaching as co-creation and co-discovery.
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Jiang argues that teaching Paradiso first makes the construction of the whole poem legible because the class can then see how the beginning locks into the ending.
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Jiang says the platform will skip around Dante not because the omitted cantos are unimportant but because he does not yet feel able to interpret every canto fully and wants to focus on the pieces he can teach honestly.
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Jiang rejects that line by insisting that God already has free will and pressing the class away from speculative complexity.
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Jiang rejects a literal treatment of Dante’s theology and says Dante is using metaphor and poetry to explain the human place in the universe, not offering a scientific or logically exhaustive account of reality.
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Jiang reframes Dante’s first lunar question in ordinary visual terms by asking the class why the moon has dark spots, using familiar observation as the bridge into Dante’s cosmology.
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Jiang insists that reason and imagination are not the same faculty and invites the class to define the difference before he answers directly.
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He frames his teaching as an exploratory inquiry rather than delivery of settled answers, saying he teaches by asking questions and expanding provisional assumptions into a wider understanding of the world.
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"this course so um to be honest with you this is my actually my first time reading divine comedy info okay i've taught the..."
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"trying to do is we're trying to understand dante thematically rather than factually i hope that after class you do go and review what..."
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"find your way because your true mission is to ascend to the top here that's the Lord his father your king heaven and write..."
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"Okay. Do you understand? That's why I have to emphasize, okay? There is a mission here. Let's stick to the mission. If you don't..."
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"It's just I don't have, as I mentioned, yesterday, I don't have the full knowledge to fully interpret the other cantos. But I want..."
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"God is within us. So he wants to experience free will, but God already has free will. God is God. God can do whatever..."
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"let me clarify something okay this donnie is beyond time and space do you understand so we cannot use our logic we cannot use..."
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"and the best way to understand god is that god is this force that loves us unconditionally and calls us back to him which..."
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"Okay, so they're on the moon, okay? And Tande has a question, which is, why are there dark spots on the moon? Actually, Carol,..."
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"All right, so let's figure this out. Reason and imagination are not the same thing. Okay? Logic, intuition are not the same thing. Before..."
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"from um i i'm sorry i can't pronounce this person okay all right um why do you never mention vedic eschatology um it's very..."
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"students zone out they don't come to class all right so I'm at like 16 students a class but like maybe one or two..."
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