Glossary
Flourishing or human happiness achieved through one's arete.
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eudaimonia
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Flourishing; in Jiang's usage, the state of happiness and selfhood achieved when one expresses one's arete and reaches one's creative best or true potential. Jiang connects flourishing to the ability to acknowledge limitations, fate, and destiny while continuing to struggle.
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Defined by Jiang as being creatively best: flourishing, blossoming, imagining, and vibrating as much as possible.
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Flourishing: living life to the best of one's ability under conditions of fate and limited control.
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Jiang defines Greek arete as excellence, becoming the best at what one can do, and eudaimonia as flourishing achieved through that excellence.
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Jiang defines eudaimonia as flourishing: happiness and selfhood become possible only when one is achieving or expressing one's arete.
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Achilles' choice of a young heroic death at Troy over old age at home illustrates Jiang's claim that Achilles can flourish only through fighting and glory.
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Achilles' misery while sitting out the war comes from being prevented from fighting; without fighting, he cannot be Achilles.
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Jiang defines greatness, arete, and eudaimonia in this tragic register as recognizing one's limitations, fate, and destiny while struggling regardless.
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A person's role is to create as much of a vibrational splash as possible; eudaimonia is described as flourishing, blossoming, imagining, and vibrating at one's creative best.
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Polytheistic fate teaches that because tomorrow may destroy you, the point of life is eudaimonia: flourishing and living to the best of one's ability today.
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Jiang reverses the apparent agency story: the worldview that says humans lack control inspires excellence, while the worldview that says humans control everything enslaves them.
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"...our time here. And the Greeks have a word for this, eudaimonia, which is flourishing. So every day we should be asking ourselves, not..."
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"...open, very curious. They believe in the idea of Erette and Eudaimonia. Erette means excellence, to be the best at what you can. Eudaimonia..."
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"And that achieves Eudaimonia. The Romans are very different. The Romans believe in the idea of piety. This means obedience to your father s,..."
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"...civilization. Achilles, the great warrior, and Odysseus, the great orator. Okay? Eudaimonia means flourishing. And the idea of eudaimonia is that you can only..."
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"...the paragon of the warrior. Okay? So, that's the idea of eudaimonia. I can only be happy when I am being my creative best,..."
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"...destiny but you struggle regardless okay that's what Erette that's what eudaimonia is to recognize your limitations to recognize the universe may have a..."
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"...Okay? To vibrate. The Greeks have a term for this called eudaimonia which is the purpose of life is to be your creative best,..."
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"...The difference is, in number one, they have a concept called eudaimonia. If you have no control over your life, over your fate, if..."
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"...be today. And that's how you win favor from the gods. Eudaimonia, what we call flourishing. The point of life is to live it..."
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"So, in the first system, even though it sounds like we have no control, we have no agency, but it inspires us to live..."
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"Nothing into everything. That's what alchemy was. And maybe in science class you're taught that alchemy is just fake science. It's a pseudoscience. And..."
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"...can use it to create a new system that allows for eudaimonia or the flourishing of the human intellect. Okay? All right. Any questions?..."
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