Jiang treats Francis's renunciation not just as self-denial but as an example meant to show others that spiritual enlightenment matters more than chasing money.
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Jiang moves the discussion from abstract definitions of art to concrete cases by asking students to name artworks that changed their lives.
Jiang treats His Dark Materials as a useful example of art that genuinely changes a person's worldview.
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"...spirit, and... spiritual enlightenment, rather than chasing money. He, as an example, he want to show the world that this is, Wait. There can..."
"...it brings greater happiness to you. So by being a good example, by being a good leader, he's creating more happiness in the world,..."
"...that has changed you okay just name it yes uh for example like the"
"you know the movie uh determine a terminator because you know the movie that is not a piece"
"of art by the way okay inception uh inception okay yeah boostly the movies boostly okay"
"yes i've actually read that so so i actually know this example okay but tell us why it's changed you"
"...we have people moving up but let's use picarda as an example so picarda moved through purgatory and then ended up in her spot..."
"...they went through purgatory but okay so picard is a bad example but anybody else um who's going to extend through purgatory are they..."
"...punishments that just would replicate themselves in hell okay so for example there's no there's no circle of envy but the punishment is to..."
"...it shows the ignorance of wrath, of anger. And the last example is also from the Bible, the story of Saint Stephen, who is..."
"...exact uh ways of it but i know that there for example even in in sort of the contemporary world there are some sources..."
"But what, Gerardo, is this whom you mention as an example of the banished people whose presence would reproach the savage age? Either your..."
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