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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 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...
Greg says this may be a sacred calm before larger upheaval, so people should not ruin the good time beforehand by obsessively worrying about what is coming.
He says people in China are less worried about closures because family engagement remains high and many students continue learning through cram schools outside formal classrooms.
"You know, this is a sacred time. If you think big things are coming, don't waste the good time beforehand just worrying about them...."
"They were closed for a good two to three months. But now they're back. We're back in session. Yes. We are now in Chinese..."
"...you were lost, but it turned out, no, there's nothing to worry about. There's nothing to be angry about. Jesus is just being Jesus,..."
"...feeds this honest cycle of violence right so by saying don't worry your loved one is in purgatory don't bother church pray for this..."
"...snatching him, and he wakes up startled, and Virgil says, don't worry, it was actually Lucia who came down from heaven to carry you..."
"...Because you could get, say, a teacher who says, well, don't worry too much, but focus on your soul, your spirit, and be happy..."
"...the shadow he's nervous like where's virgil and virgil like don't worry i'm still with you i'm gonna guide you relax man okay that's..."
"...It's the attitude. Like be yourself. Indulge yourself. Love yourself. Don't worry about other people. Don't worry about your responsibility to society. Don't try..."
"You see sin. Don't worry about it. It doesn't matter. What matters is your salvation. And your salvation demands that you keep yourself free..."
"So yeah, this is the modern version, okay? Sorry. Yeah, don't worry about it. It's like the old version is the Trinity, okay? So..."
"...act with faith love and hope just do that okay don't worry about anything else you can have these dreams god may or may..."
"...free because they are free of sin. They don't have to worry about ending up in hell. And being chained up for the rest..."
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...
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.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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.
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,...
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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