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Jiang refuses to let the class solve the problem only historically and insists on the general principle: why should motive still matter if a person's actions genuinely help vast numbers of people?
"than the outcome okay but but i i understand this i understand this different time i'm saying like um in the grand scheme of..."
"...in any kind of I'm just saying like, generally speaking, the general principle. Yeah."
"Okay. Yeah. So their general principle is always the eldest son. Okay? That's to avoid conflict. Because if you open up to say, okay,..."
"...It is less a special principle than a consequence of a general principle of democracy applied to our country's most pressing needs. We have..."
"...French Revolution. All right, so Rousseau is trying to reason from general principles as to how to form a good society, a social contract..."
"...saying is that not only can we deduce good government from general principles, but good government can be measured, okay? So we can know..."
"...Do you understand? So what we're saying is that just from general principles, just if you're able to exercise reason by yourself, you should..."
Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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