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Jiang's response here is methodological: rather than simply naming pride the root, he tests the claim by asking whether it can causally generate sloth and the other sins.
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Causality
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Jiang distinguishes fact from truth by arguing that truth would require a total account of causes and contexts that finite journalism cannot provide but God can.
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Jiang rejects those as downstream effects and asks for the concrete social change that would have produced materialism and hatred in the first place.
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A student argues that predetermination requires an ordered relation between what comes first and what comes next, not mere undifferentiated determination.
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Luck cannot explain Octavian's rise because saying he became emperor by being lucky is circular rather than causal.
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"Pride. Huh. Okay. Can you, do you have an answer?"
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"Explain to me why pride leads to laziness, Slav."
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"Yes, so I'm a member of the Cormac McCarthy Society and he has this line beauty and truth are one. Yes, that's right. Exactly...."
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"Yeah, but where did that come from? Where did this materialism come from?"
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"No, what's causing this materialism? What's causing this hatred? Come on. I mean, like you just talk to your grandparents, right? And like your..."
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"the the girl was mentioning right because because if there's no ordinal relationship between those things predetermination is just determination there's no what's what..."
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"In this battle what happens is basically Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, they run away from the battle, and then they return to Alexandria and..."
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"You become emperor by being lucky, okay? So that's, that doesn't suffice. Second is, you can say he was brilliant. Julius Caesar was brilliant,..."
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"...That you know one thing led to another. I mean. The causality. I would use World War One as an example. This leads to..."
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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