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Jiang uses Kant's categorical imperative to give the general will an ethical basis: universality, free will, and treating human life as an end in itself.
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Ethics
Jiang uses Kant's categorical imperative to give the general will an ethical basis: universality, free will, and treating human life as an end in itself.
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The spark reveals right and wrong experientially: it glows through love, teaching, generosity, and fulfilled action.
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In Virgil's model, love is not automatically praiseworthy; it depends on the object and on whether the beloved or desired action is good.
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Virgil answers the free-will problem by saying humans may not choose the first inflaming desire, but they possess the power to judge and curb that love.
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Jiang concludes from the values comparison that Rome's ethical system would produce more cohesion, discipline, and military capacity than Greek or Carthaginian systems.
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"expression of the best of who we are okay do you understand so by ourselves we're fine okay when we come together we create..."
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"imagine that whatever you do will be replicated by everyone else immediately okay that's the idea of universality second is the idea of free..."
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"my people but the other 50 percent would live will be happy they'll live in Paradise you can't do that okay because you cannot..."
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"we seek for because of the spark in you right because the spark in you you know when it glows when you love someone..."
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"different things until the you find the things that make your spark grow yeah and and say the"
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"important idea is that our lives are infinite okay so we will die and die is a game reset okay it's just like you..."
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"and then you chase after this fantasy until it's yours and you become a box with your love and you twist her and she..."
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"see how deeply hidden truth is from screwness who would insist that every love is in itself praiseworthy okay there's some people who believe..."
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"true that when we see someone beautiful we must have her then we have no free will we have no free choice we're just..."
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"gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth..."
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"...that thus they left on to you to the world is ethics okay even though we allow necessity as source for every power that..."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So, if we just do a compare and contrast, we could easily figure out, oh, it's the Roman..."
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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