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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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Flourishing
Because the current system was an accident of human imagination, Jiang says controlling imagination could create a new system oriented toward eudaimonia and intellectual flourishing.
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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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Eudaimonia is presented as flourishing under uncertainty: because fate cannot be controlled, one should live today to the best of one's ability.
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Jiang contrasts ancient flourishing with modern pleasure: the first inspires excellence despite limited control, while the second promises control but enslaves people to not feeling sad.
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Because the current system was an accident of human imagination, Jiang says controlling imagination could create a new system oriented toward eudaimonia and intellectual flourishing.
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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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"...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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"king is a king 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..."
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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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"oh you have control complete control over your life it enslaves us okay all right now let's move on to the third and final..."
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"And maybe in science class, you're taught that alchemy is this fake science. It's a pseudo -science, and it did not work. What you..."
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"...to create a new system that allows for eudaimonia or the flourishing of the human intellect. Okay. All right. Any questions? Okay. So, um,..."
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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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"So these are the major thinkers. The philosophy, the value system that underpins all this artistic production is the idea of humanism. So what..."
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"How do I have the best possible life on earth? So the Greek word is eudaimonia. So humanism is actually a return to the..."
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