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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
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...
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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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"...the ad and what did you let uh let you uh censor it and you know better right and you're like well okay it's..."
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"...to people like you may disagree with them but you don't censor them that that was that was considered a sin now it's just..."
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"...is a place meant for free debate, open dialogue. I don't censor anyone. I don't stop anyone from talking, okay? All right, guys, see..."
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"...at it. And so the new tactic is not to blatantly censor, but to flood with so much information that you don't have the..."
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"...that they won the propaganda war so they don't need to censor they don't need to censor the propaganda war so they don't need..."
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"...we shouldn't trust the vaccines and there's a massive campaign to censor anyone and everyone who raised any questions about the health of people..."
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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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"...that the Israelis learned from the 12 -day war is to censor its own people. To make sure that this footage of destruction would..."
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"...of the greater Israel project. But in the future, we'll just censor media. We'll just disguise the fact that we're getting destroyed by 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...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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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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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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George Galloway brings Jiang on for an immediate wartime reading, and Jiang answers by turning battlefield questions into a larger trap structure.
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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