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The key contrast term Jiang uses to separate Dante's unconditional love from Virgil's more narcissistic conception.
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true love
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Virgil and Dante. It's very important we distinguish clearly what is true love. And when we learn about Virgil, you will recognize that there..."
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Jiang says it is crucial to distinguish true love because the coming Virgil-versus-Dante contrast will show narcissism in Virgil's concept of love but not in Dante's.
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Jiang defines Dante's love as unconditional and says Dante asks people to transcend ego without abandoning it entirely.
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"...Virgil and Dante. It's very important we distinguish clearly what is true love. And when we learn about Virgil, you will recognize that there..."
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"Right, okay, so yeah, so Dante would demand that you leave your ego, that you transcend your ego. Okay? It doesn't mean you abandon..."
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"...of all time and he's like well you married my one true love and then she died so like how much can you i..."
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"...you can love love her love anyway what this is real true love I suppose but AI wife is different because AI is not..."
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"...must act out. Meaning you must speak out. Okay? That's what true love is. Does it make sense, guys? Okay. So great. We'll take..."
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"...because the love is uh i don't know what love really true love is it if you mean the true love it's just so..."
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"...desires tend toward earthly ends then so deflected rays of the true love mount toward the life above with lesser force okay so"
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"...Okay? Dante was willing to give He understood that living That true love Is about sharing Is about bestowing Is about giving yourself Whereas..."
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"...And she believes that through passion, through devotion, I can find true love and therefore complete myself. Okay? So, she has an affair with..."
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"...him go you have to let him or her go because true love means trusting other people okay keep on going"
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"...-always be there so if like you said that parents the true love is to trust right so if parents trust their kid, they..."
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"...first version. Second version is when he wrote he found his true love he settled down in the woods to write full time. Okay?..."
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