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Jiang uses Buddhist and Hindu reincarnation as a model for wisdom: souls assume many roles through pain and suffering until empathy produces enlightenment.
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Enlightenment
Jiang uses Buddhist and Hindu reincarnation as a model for wisdom: souls assume many roles through pain and suffering until empathy produces enlightenment.
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Athenian theater is described as central to Athenian life and as a practice of education and enlightenment, not only entertainment.
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The course offers a path rather than instant immortality or godhood; the path requires focus and sacrifice over a lifelong journey.
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Protestantism and then the Enlightenment increase the abstraction and extraction power of transnational capital, culminating in money replacing God.
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The Enlightenment moves from an inactive God to a human-made world, creating a need for money to replace God as the organizing sacred object.
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Jiang summarizes the Enlightenment/Romanticism split as science versus nature, reason versus emotion, liberty versus will and struggle, and French general will versus German Geist.
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Frederick the Great is presented as an Enlightenment despot who created rule of law, religious tolerance, limited speech freedom, and a public school system copied later by other powers.
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Dostoevsky is presented as anti-Enlightenment: reason does not save civilization because logic can justify mass killing; truth lies in the heart and in returning to Orthodox selfhood.
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"Okay, and so now the... And now this is a resolution, okay? This is the epiphany of Achilles. He recognizes his guilt. And now..."
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"...is to develop empathy, okay? Because empathy leads to wisdom and enlightenment, right? But the great thing about a great book is it's a..."
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"...more than just entertainment it was about education it was about enlightenment and a vacation okay so um he talks about the theater in..."
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"...to you to focus and sacrifice yourself on this path into enlightenment. Okay? Metaphor, a simple analogy is everyone knows swimming is the best..."
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"But it's a journey that requires sacrifice. It's a journey that requires you to fully learn the great books. I can't teach you all..."
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"...hit England, we go from England to America, we have the Enlightenment. Okay? And when we hit the Enlightenment, what's going to happen is..."
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"...also Protestant. The Protestant Reformation is going to change to the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment is there may be a God, but God doesn't really..."
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"This becomes the holy, this becomes money, okay? Money as God. And this works because if you insert money into the Protestant faith, it..."
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"...So let's just summarize. So let's just summarize the differences between Enlightenment and Romanism, because the Enlightenment is what's going to drive the French..."
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"All right. So main difference between French nationalism and German nationalism. Okay? Separation of church and state. For the Germans, the nation is the..."
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"So let's look at the few things he did. He radically reformed the Prussian judicial system so that you had rule of law, so..."
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"thing is that in 1763, he establishes a public school system that becomes a source for Prussia's future greatness. And to put this in..."
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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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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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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