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Jiang defines unity as the belief that all beings are the same and therefore owe love and protection to each other and to nature.
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Glossary
One condition of religious authority: the system needs a beginning and an end that make it a unified whole.
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Jiang treats unity not as a civic good but as the specific social condition corporate power most needs to prevent, because united majorities could target elite control directly.
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In comparing Dante and Shakespeare, Bromwich says Dante gives form to the world through a single-minded religious architecture, whereas Shakespeare's plays do not add up to one comparable unity.
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Jiang closes the sequence by restating that Dante implies a unified cosmos in which persons remain connected to one another across dimensions rather than isolated in sealed moral compartments.
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Jiang pushes that imaginative art-experience can move a viewer outside ordinary time and space, producing a felt unity rather than separation.
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Another student argues that widespread cultural mixing can create world unity by placing every culture inside every country.
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In Jiang's model, gluttony, lust, greed, and anger all feed a territorial ego that prevents unity and therefore makes smooth passage through hell impossible.
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Jiang says sex represents God because sex is the unit or unity of all things.
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Jiang says Beatrice and Dante must become unified for Dante to proceed, yet the final approach to God is solitary and cannot be shared by two people at once.
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A student asks whether the lament should be read as Dante's call for Italians to stop fighting and unite toward peace and understanding.
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"...things shakespeare's doing in his plays i i don't see any unity that you can add up from the three dozen odd plays that..."
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"...really interesting because because what donna is referring to is the unity of the universe of the cosmos right so not only are you..."
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"...Okay, so you're moving outside of time and space which creates unity, okay? Does that make sense, guys? Time and space create separation, but..."
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"I think it helps with unity in the world because, like, if every culture is represented in every country, then it, it creates unity..."
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"...can be no smooth path in hell. There can be no unity in hell. They just have to fight each other all the time,..."
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"...as we are moving towards God there has to be the unity of Beatrice and Dante in order for Dante to fully proceed because..."
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"Yeah, I agree, it sounds like a lament, and also I wanted to ask, like, you know that in history, this time, this is..."
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"the world's credulity increases so that people throng to every indulgence backed by no authority and no authority and this allows the antonines to..."
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"to the temple to disc le me is ready to mark move to the temple to disc employ disabilities are employ disabilities are national..."
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"reunites all the types of thinking the religion and it guides through love and because love is uniting well it's a way to just..."
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"...are beyond time and space so everything is together it's complete unity unison okay doesn't make sense that's point one point two is that..."
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""'Oh, grace abounding through which I presume "'to set my eyes on the eternal light, "'so long as I spend all my sight on..."
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