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Greg quotes Jiang defining flourishing as the condition reached through love, learning, creation, and moving toward one's purpose.
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flourishing
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yes? I guess my first practical answer would be you realize that acting virtuously is what creates a universe where imagination can flourish and..."
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normative
A student proposal Jiang treats as abstractly true is that virtue creates the sort of world in which imagination can flourish, though he postpones endorsing that as the concrete mechanism.
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Jiang predicts that any part of the world that makes Dante central to education will flourish more than places that do not.
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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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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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Humanism shifts the central question from God's nature and salvation to human stories, flourishing, talents, earthly goodness, beauty, and truth.
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Greg quotes Jiang's public guidance that when the world splinters, people should hold themselves together through love, imagination, purpose, and present-tense flourishing.
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Jiang says elite control works primarily through fear and ego, and overcoming both is necessary for genuine human thriving.
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"Yes? I guess my first practical answer would be you realize that acting virtuously is what creates a universe where imagination can flourish and..."
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"Okay. That's true. But I want to go into the technical details of how this happens. What you say is abstractly true but I..."
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"is teach dante to the entire world and we'll see which parts of the world accept dante and i guarantee you the parts of..."
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"...the great warrior, and Odysseus, the great orator. Okay? Eudaimonia means flourishing. And the idea of eudaimonia is that you can only be happy,..."
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"He is the paragon of the warrior. Okay? So, that's the idea of eudaimonia. I can only be happy when I am being my..."
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"Okay? All right. Another metaphor that we can use is think of an ocean. Think of an ocean. Right? And all these pebbles are..."
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"Wow. I mean, this has just become so much more interesting than I even thought it would be because you've opened up about some..."
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"...have a word for when we achieve our teleos, purpose. Edimonda, flourishing. We flourish when we love, learn, and create. Third, start here now...."
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"Well, so the powers that be, their main mechanism of control is your fear and your ego, right? The entire culture, especially in our..."
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"Why? Because he's favored by the gods. It's not because he's a good person. It's not because he's a just ruler. It's just because..."
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"...how you win favor from the gods. Eudaimonia, what we call flourishing. The point of life is to live it to the best of..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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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...
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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