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Jiang's term for Aristotle as a selector, editor, synthesizer, or systemizer of politically convenient knowledge rather than an original thinker.
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censor
Jiang's term for Aristotle as a selector, editor, synthesizer, or systemizer of politically convenient knowledge rather than an original thinker.
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Jiang's central controversial argument is that Aristotle was not primarily a philosopher, thinker, or writer but a censor, synthesizer, editor, or systemizer who chose what was politically convenient.
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Jiang argues that a censor was needed to create Greek identity by standardizing and systemizing Greek knowledge into encyclopedias or textbooks defining what it meant to be Greek.
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Jiang's theory resolves Aristotle's three paradoxes by making Aristotle a censor working for Philip and Alexander to develop a pan-Hellenistic identity for the conquered world.
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"...is a philosopher. He is what I refer to as a censor, censor. You can also use words like synthesizer, okay, or editor, or..."
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"...were Greek. Okay? So in other words, Philip needed someone. A censor, basically, to create a Greek identity. Right? And the way you do..."
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"...of Aristotle. Okay? Does that make sense? He was basically a censor who was working for Philip and Alexander. And he was trying to..."
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"Okay? The second thing, clarity, is to censor people, censorship. And we're already seeing that in Israel where you're not allowed to film military..."
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"...if you control the information landscape, what you can do is censor. And that's what America's doing right now. It's telling people to shut..."
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"...a drama of the highest order there is little food for censor or hatred it teaches rather than self -knowledge and self -respect nearly..."
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"...to judge for himself or herself what is true whenever you censor something you're denying freedom to people okay so this is an absolutist..."
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"...The thing that we said about Aristotle is he was a censor. For the Macedonian Empire. He was trying to justify the supremacy of..."
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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