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One traditional form of arete, exemplified by Achilles. Jiang defines it as imposing reality by force, brute strength, and obedience.
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war fighting
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Jiang says traditional Greek arete has two major forms: war fighting and speech making.
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For Jiang's Greeks, war fighting and speech making are the same civilizational act by different means: both try to impose a reality on others.
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"...excel at. And traditionally, there are two types of erite. There's war fighting, and there is speech making. In Greek civilization, the paragon of..."
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"...when I'm achieving my true potential. Okay? Now, for the Greeks, war fighting and speech making are really the same thing. But for different..."
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"...is a very important speech. Okay. And this is really the fighting speech. Um, the defining, uh, a dialogue between Dante and Virgil. Remember..."
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"...dying in battle it's basically gang warfare throughout italy okay fashionable fighting just endless wars and so if you die in the battlefield and..."
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"...like it's like italy where no one's really in charge everyone's fighting each other because of their pride right okay so he he's master..."
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"...many, many bribes in order to not stop, to not stop fighting. And his Ed man told him like, let's just take the bribes...."
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"...i know that during that period the black party to keep fighting with the white party so the dante which is uh uh i..."
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"right the sinner died and now there are two angels fighting for his body right saint francis and the black sherbin okay and the..."
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"...right now. Why are there so many different factions in Italy fighting each other? Why can't they get along, right? They know each other...."
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"Good luck, Virgil. You're fighting an army of demons, yeah?"
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"...to the west is interesting to read because you know they're fighting demons and uh they're going on a journey it's in this in..."
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"...you explain uh because the twins were conceived and they were fighting inside the womb and one is hairy and one is smooth beautiful..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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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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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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