Glossary
Jiang's paired terms for what forms the soul: what one wants and moves toward.
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Will and desire
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...so deep in the inferno that there is so little will and desire and you're so far from connecting with the divine."
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"...words that you will see a lot in Dante are will and desire, okay? Will and desire. Because will and desire together create your..."
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"...so deep in the inferno that there is so little will and desire and you're so far from connecting with the divine."
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"...that make sense not enough will all right not enough will and desire all right so if you we read the divine comedy and..."
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"...you out whereas with the Francisco story it's not enough will and desire it's like you are escaping your life right you went falling..."
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"...is what elevates you to paradise not the will not the desire but the action itself that's driven by the will and desire yes..."
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"...the right path. Okay? So, it's only a question of will and desire. Yes?"
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"that our compulsion our will and desire it is always to return to the source to do so we have to love someone else..."
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"...have words. He doesn't have free will. He doesn't have will and desire. This is what happens when you fully remove yourself from God...."
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"...God let me come. I was able to find the will and desire to self -reflect, to forgive myself, and to come to purgatory...."
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"...world is that the underlying force of the world is the will, desire. And the will manifests itself physically in us in bodies. Do..."
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"...the senses of reason itself, fear of happiness and beauty, the desire to escape from all illusion, change, growth, death, wishing even from desire..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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