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Beatrice's answer says the size of material spheres depends on the power spread through their parts, with greater excellence yielding greater blessedness and therefore larger embodiment when the parts are equally complete.
Jiang defines arete as virtue, excellence, character, or the special quality one excels at.
Dunning-Kruger is used to show that self-doubt and self-reflection are marks of excellence because the worst performers most misjudge themselves.
"...the power more or less that spreads throughout their parts more excellence yields greater blessedness more blessedness must comprehend"
"sphere which sweeps along with it the rest of all the universe must match the circle that loves most and knows the most so..."
"...first is erite. The second is eudaimonia. So, erite means virtue, excellence, or character. It's something that makes you special, what you excel at...."
"Because there will be other classes on these topics. We'll be discussing quantum mechanics at a future date. So I want to make sure..."
"Okay? And the second thing is they asked students how they think they did on that IQ test. Were you in the top 5..."
"If you're able to doubt yourself, if you're able to question yourself, if you're able to self -reflect, that's a sign of an excellent..."
"...another, hopes for supremacy. He only longs to see his neighbor's excellence cast down. Then there's one who, when he's outdone, fears his own..."
"...I ask of him who are his comrades of repute and excellence. And he to me, to know of some is good but for..."
"...O memory that set down what I saw. Here shall your excellence reveal itself. I started. Poet, you who are my guide, see if..."
"...taking the field, defeated enemies within, then you must see the excellence of him, the other wheel, whom Thomas praised so graciously before I..."
"...another, hopes for supremacy. He only longs to see his neighbor's excellence cast down. Then there is one who, when he is outdone, fears..."
"...They believe in the idea of Erette and Eudaimonia. Erette means excellence, to be the best at what you can. Eudaimonia means flourishing. You..."
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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