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Homer's bardic performance is modeled as a collective movie-like experience: the same poem is presented to everyone, but each listener has a different inner experience of it.
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Homer's bardic performance is modeled as a collective movie-like experience: the same poem is presented to everyone, but each listener has a different inner experience of it.
Conscious speech includes imagining what is happening inside the listener's mind and heart and imagining the effect one's words have on that listener.
Agamemnon's speech in the war council shows consciousness because it simultaneously responds to Achilles, manages the other generals' perception, and preserves internal coherence for Agamemnon himself.
Jiang says he plans to write a book, has published two books before, has an audience, and understands the publishing process, but refuses to rush because he wants to create the best possible book.
He defines his mission as educating people to understand the world, while acknowledging that listeners may be confused or disagree.
The YouTube channel began as a review aid for Chinese students but rapidly became a global audience after growing from roughly 300 subscribers at the beginning of May to about 25,000 by this recording.
Jiang says Dante writes for the universe and future readers: the poem is a secret box that transforms those who keep working at it.
Jiang says Augustine's intended audience is the priesthood rather than ordinary laypeople, because most people could not read and priests needed a doctrine to answer theological challenges.
"into the Iliad okay but because these people are living in the universe they're still alive in the universe okay so it's impossible that..."
"There's also a part of me that steps back and analyzes what I say. Okay? It has to make sense to me, it has..."
"They're having an argument because Agamemnon stole, kidnapped a girl. The father demanded to ransom her back. Agamemnon broke the rules of war, of..."
"Okay? The first and most important thing is that he's responding to Achilles. Okay? Achilles says, you have to give the girl back. And..."
"In order to save face, I must now demand something from Achilles to show that I am his superior. Okay? He's so conscious of..."
"...publish a book. And as Oz said, I do have an audience. I do have a global audience, tens of thousands who would love..."
"I see my mission as trying to educate as many people as possible. I'm trying to help you understand the world and I understand..."
"As a young boy growing up in Toronto, Canada, I didn't have that many friends, but I read a lot of books. And one..."
"This past month, something odd happened. My channel just blew up. I went from like 300 subscribers at the beginning of May. To about..."
"...really good question who is he writing to who is his audience um so he's writing in Tuscan rather than Latin and he calls..."
"curious as to what this is and at first they can't figure it out but they stick at it and over time it begins..."
"question that that's exactly it who is his audience exactly his audience is clearly not for us or ordinary people because at this time..."
A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
Jiang explains the channel from the inside: a teacher leaving Beijing, watching Iran and Israel move toward world war, and trying to turn a student review archive into a new history that can explain...
A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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