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Jiang contrasts ancient flourishing with modern pleasure: the first inspires excellence despite limited control, while the second promises control but enslaves people to not feeling sad.
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Jiang contrasts ancient flourishing with modern pleasure: the first inspires excellence despite limited control, while the second promises control but enslaves people to not feeling sad.
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"...best of your ability and that's why guess what guys the ancients the greeks they were superior to us if you read greek literature..."
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"oh you have control complete control over your life it enslaves us okay all right now let's move on to the third and final..."
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"...generations of humanity, but we're not in the same position as ancient people."
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"...of love. No sooner had I heard my teacher name the ancient ladies and the knights than pity seized me and I was like..."
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"...of love. No sooner had I heard my teacher name the ancient ladies and the knights than pity seized me, and I was like..."
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"...religion? Religion is a memory or long lost memory of our ancient past told through myths and stories. So, there's truth to religion because..."
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"...you were not pursuing alien fields and unknown homes, even if ancient Troy were still standing, still, who'd sail for Troy across such heaving..."
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"...of the house, an ample altar stood, naked under disguise, an ancient laurel bending over the shrine, embracing our household gods within its shade...."
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"...in human history. And as we discussed last semester, in the ancient world, there were three great civilizations, right? The Jews, the Greeks, and..."
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"...think about the soul. And the soul is something that the ancients were really concerned about, because it was really the most fundamental issue..."
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"...have a much more simplistic understanding of our psychology than the ancients."
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"...don't study intelligence of animals and plants. We also don't study ancient architecture and civilizations, so if you go to these ancient sites like..."
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