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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is ecstatic. Right. So rather than be like, feel pity, like, great man. Okay. And you know, it's not a good look, but what..."
In answer to how Caesar challenged Roman identity, Jiang says Caesar changed time through the Julian calendar, acted alone as a great man, and violated the republican lesson that no one is above Rome.
Jiang says no great man like Putin can arise from Western society because the British system creates bureaucratic thought rather than intuitive greatness.
"...himself. He was introducing reform legislation by himself. He was a great man. But if you're Roman, what you have been taught is these..."
"...system. But the problem with the British system is like, no great man could ever arise from western society. Does that make sense? Because..."
"How dare you refute these thousands of scholars who have put all this work into World War II scholarship? Okay, do you understand? All..."
"...is ecstatic. Right. So rather than be like, feel pity, like, great man. Okay. And you know, it's not a good look, but what..."
"idea of humans drive history be the root of this uh great man great people idea of history instead of collective history"
"...I have reported here. She answered, Oh, eternal light of that great man to whom our Lord bequeathed the keys of this astonishing gladness...."
"...to think that a genius can change history There 's a great man the ory of history that 's embedded in Ch inese historical..."
"...cracked the sky with a bolt his blazing sign and the great man who had borne so much rejoiced at last that that the..."
"...Free education for all children. And you're like, oh, well, that's great, man. Free schooling. No, it's not. Because now you can brainwash them,..."
"...All right. So, so what does it mean to be a great man? Okay? So I say that love is the unifying force of..."
"...not you're not allowed to question popular opinion and therefore no great man can arise if you think about it in American history there..."
"...right? So it was a dream of many philosophers that a great man of history would arise and unite all of Greece by basically..."
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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...
A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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