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Warring-states periods are the height of creativity because open competition forces innovation; Jiang names Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Greek classical culture as examples.
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Confucius
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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Jiang says that even if Laozi and Confucius were originally great thinkers, successive Chinese regimes hollowed them out through censorship and bureaucratic editing, leaving later readers only an acceptable shell.
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"Okay? So if there are four princes, okay, who are about to inherit the throne, there are four different factions that support them. That..."
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"Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated, and open -minded civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated,..."
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"...the warring states period there's 100 years when we had kong's confucius monsa laozi it's basically everyone okay all right and and if you..."
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"...bureaucratic culture as opposed to an effectual culture. Maybe Laozi and Confucius. Maybe they were... Amazing thinkers. But over time, what happens is that..."
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"And this is something that every regime has done. So even though regimes change, their policy of censorship has maintained. And that's why when..."
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"...think Dante is coming from a very spiritual perspective, just like Confucius or Buddha is. So he's like, I don't want worldly, earthly reward..."
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"...Christianity, Jesus, right? Jesus tells you to be a good person. Confucius tells you to be a good person, right? But the lender class,..."
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"...the Chuntiu. Right? The spring autumn period. That's where we're getting Confucius from. Zhuanzi. Okay? All the great ideas came from this period of..."
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"...right? That's a practice here we use in China where, well, Confucius said this, so this must be true. And what René Descartes is..."
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",000 years Confucius is obviously Who is best remembered? from this era, but you also have Lao Tzu who is the founder of Taoism?..."
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"...officials. If you look at Confucian thought, there's a hierarchy in Confucius thought, right? At the very top are scholar officials. They're the most..."
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"...most of Chinese innovation and creativity came from, from that period. Confucius came from that period. Laozi, okay? A lot of major intellectual breakthroughs..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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