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Jiang's category for leaders who stand outside normal incentives and create revolutions that transform the world.
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great men of history
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you are conquering, okay? And they have been identified as great men of history. But I think it's really Homer and Dante, and Plato,..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you are conquering, okay? And they have been identified as great men of history. But I think it's really Homer and Dante, and Plato,..."
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"Okay? And next class, we will discuss this. All right? So does it make sense to you? Okay? And again, what we will understand..."
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"They stand outside of history. They are in many ways not human. Okay? They don't behave, normal humans behave. Right? Normally, if you're a..."
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"...you are conquering, okay? And they have been identified as great men of history. But I think it's really Homer and Dante, and Plato,..."
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"...is one of these individuals, these men who we call great men of history."
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"...argument that these edge cases that Eric refers to, these great men of history, they're actually telepaths. Okay? Does that make sense? They're actually..."
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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...
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Greek culture did not spread because everyone recognized its beauty.
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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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