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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...abandon everyone you know in order for you to seek the true path, okay? This is not just exile, it is also isolation. It..."
Jiang says Dante's fellow exiles are consumed by vengeance against the Black Guelphs and that the grandfather's warning is to abandon factional politics, bloodlust, and even familiar company in order to seek the true path.
"...abandon everyone you know in order for you to seek the true path, okay? This is not just exile, it is also isolation. It..."
"...or challenging orthodoxy, to make sure that everyone stayed on the true path, okay? And so this is the official history told by the..."
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...
Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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