Glossary
Jiang's preferred post-nation-state political unit, treated as a more natural scale of human organization and the next object of the host's democracy question.
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city-state
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "uh dante's divine comedy and the renaissance accord occurred to in the same city florence and you say that that's because of dante's or..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "uh dante's divine comedy and the renaissance accord occurred to in the same city florence and you say that that's because of dante's or..."
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A student argues that Florence had multiple concrete advantages for the Renaissance, including trade, wealth, city-state pluralism, and educational concentration.
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Jiang predicts that political organization is more likely to return to the city-state, which he regards as a more natural human form than the nation-state.
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Jiang predicts that a city-state future will generally be more democratic, liberal, and agency-rich than the nation-state era because smaller polities need active participation from their members.
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Jiang says the city-state will likely remain the main future unit of organization, but he also expects more diverse and ephemeral formations to matter, including multinationals, military cartels, and religions.
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"uh dante's divine comedy and the renaissance accord occurred to in the same city florence and you say that that's because of dante's or..."
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"we're heading back towards a time of the city -state and I think the city -state is much more natural phenomenon than the nation..."
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"do you think those city -states will be their most successful when they're Democratic or is Singapore a really good example of"
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"...a good analogy um it's a Greek polis right the Greek city states and you will have diversity of government but you will definitely..."
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"that's a great question so when I think of city -states I think in terms of geography but you're actually right in that you..."
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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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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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