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Goethe's Faust rewrites Job from a fear-inspiring story about God's unquestionable mystery into an optimistic Enlightenment story about curiosity.
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Goethe's Faust rewrites Job from a fear-inspiring story about God's unquestionable mystery into an optimistic Enlightenment story about curiosity.
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In Jiang's reading of Faust, Mephistopheles' wager is to make Faust complacent and lose curiosity, not merely to tempt him with ordinary sin.
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In Jiang's reading of Faust, curiosity is how humans show faith in God; God leads the curious into clarity.
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Renaissance art moves from 'blinding and awesome' to 'compelling and curious' by using depth, spatial motion, and dramatic tension to make the viewer participate.
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Raphael's insertion of himself into School of Athens is read as a Dantean move: against Christian humility and self-negation, the artist re-enters the world and celebrates human curiosity.
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He says Augustine turns curiosity and exploration from human goods into signs of evil that can only lead to sin.
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Jiang rejects the idea that human nature is fundamentally benevolent and instead says humans naturally seek spiritual understanding, curiosity, exploration, trade, imagination, and answers to why we exist.
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Jiang says curiosity and imagination are context-dependent: in the IVC they can lead to peace and egalitarianism, while when channeled opportunistically they can become destructive, including in conflicts linked to Second Coming ideas in the contemporary Middle East.
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"Okay. And so Faust the book of Faust it's based on another book called the book of Job which we find in the Bible...."
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"You take away his children. And he will curse you. And God says fine. I make you this bet. You can do anything you..."
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"Do not ever believe you can question me. Okay. And then what God does is he restores Job's health and wealth. Okay. So it's..."
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"...can make him not want to learn anymore to lose his curiosity. And if I win this bet then Phos will become my servant...."
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"This is Mephistopheles saying to God their lives will be a little easier if you not let them glimpse the light of heaven. They..."
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"...wants to understand the world he's curious he's driven by his curiosity and his imagination. And Mephistopheles makes fun of him because he'll never..."
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"You're here to submit. Alright? So as you can see, this is a church. You can see how the light comes in. And it..."
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"It's much too thin, right? So what your eye believes is this table is expanding outwards. And so you are part of this picture...."
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"...But Raphael is reinserting himself into the world and celebrating his curiosity, celebrating his humanity. Okay? And where does he get this idea from?..."
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"This is a visual representation of the divine comedy. Because remember, in the divine comedy, Virgil and Dante are engaged in a vigorous debate..."
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"...Well, all this thing is saying is that's exactly the problem. Curiosity can only lead to evil. Exploration can only lead to sin. That's..."
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"much more concrete because it was experiencing a reality in Mesopotamia and Egypt that was abhorrent to the people experiencing that. Okay? War goes..."
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