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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Then it replied, a conscience that is dark either through its or through another's shame indeed will find that what you speak is harsh...."
The quoted ending of the prophecy tells Dante not to hide the truth: even if his words itch or wound at first, they should be spoken plainly and will later nourish, especially when anchored in famous exemplars rather than obscure arguments.
"Then it replied, a conscience that is dark either through its or through another's shame indeed will find that what you speak is harsh...."
"Well, historically, there have been lots of examples. The most famous example is during the Peloponnesian War, Athens attacks Sicily, for no particular reason...."
"...history of humanity, this happens quite often. Some of the most famous examples are the Aztecs. We've dug up temples of the Aztecs and..."
"...religion. And they were very supportive of that. Okay? The most famous example are the Jews. Right? Who the Persians supported in rebuilding the..."
"All right? So the example of eudaimonia, the most famous example of eudaimonia is this. In Homer's Iliad, the main character is Achilles. And..."
"...the elites ultimately leads to social collapse. Okay? So, the most famous example is in China. In imperial China, where you have the system...."
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...
Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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