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The two forces Jiang says create the soul: what one wants and moves toward.
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will and desire
The two forces Jiang says create the soul: what one wants and moves toward.
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Jiang's paired terms for what forms the soul: what one wants and moves toward.
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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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"...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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"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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"...to ascend to heaven. Because they choose to. It's about will and desire. Okay? So and then they go into the first layer of..."
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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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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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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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