Glossary
A model variable measuring whether social conditions make people cooperate and work together.
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compassion
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is because of the lack of love and the lack of compassion and the lack of imagination, right? So, if we can, you know,..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is because of the lack of love and the lack of compassion and the lack of imagination, right? So, if we can, you know,..."
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A student synthesis Jiang endorses says the challenges of Purgatory all share one root in lack of love, compassion, and imagination, so overcoming one vice can illuminate the others.
diagnosis
Survival of the fittest is not Jiang's account of historical human organization; he says humans are usually compassionate toward the ill, elderly, and weak.
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Jiang says survival of the fittest is wrong as a human rule because most human history shows compassion, empathy, divinity in creatures, and special care for the weak.
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Schopenhauer's solution is compassion, art, and self-denial, a secularized Buddhist/Hindu logic culminating in nirvana through desire removal.
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Answering Celine, he says love, learning, and creation can be modeled through agency, freedom, social interaction, and compassion.
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He says social arrangements shape compassion: shared survival can produce cooperation, while competitive money incentives can make people hate each other.
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Jiang predicts that after this contraction societies will be forced toward greater compassion, responsibility, resilience, and local accountability, which in turn will screen out psychopaths more effectively.
normative
Jiang says the world's contradictions will resolve violently and that the only real path of salvation through that process is for humans to become more compassionate toward one another.
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"...is because of the lack of love and the lack of compassion and the lack of imagination, right? So, if we can, you know,..."
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"have as many children as possible and that's why after this transition from matriarchy to patriarchy a lot of women start to die okay..."
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"knows who the fathers are everything starts over for caring for for taking care of every single child and that's the best strategy that..."
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"But we're not apes. We're imaginative first and foremost. And as such, we have control over our lives. And that's something that you have..."
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"And you only do that for people you really prize. That's kind of strange, right? The people who we think that are most worthless,..."
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"solution is that it's not good for the human race um so i think the solution will naturally appear where you know um over..."
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"...more compassionate towards each other, because that's really the only salvation, compassion towards each other."
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"Because right now, there's an overemphasis on individuality. Now, you could argue like, you know, without individuality, liberalism is nothing. I mean, like, like,..."
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"So his great solution to this is compassion. As humans, we must first and foremost be compassionate towards each other and remind ourselves that..."
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"Does that make sense? So he says, Life has no intrinsic worth but is kept in motion merely by desire and illusion. And as..."
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"Okay. Okay. How do you model love, learn, and create? Okay? And the answer is that there has to be a certain amount of..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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 a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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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 the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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