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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the academy. And what Aristotle will do is he will take Greek knowledge and will systemize it into a knowledge of empire."
Jiang's answer to the first two Aristotle paradoxes is that Aristotle did not write anything original but copied or stole from other thinkers, and that the range of his work came from trying to capture Greek knowledge in an encyclopedia for world dissemination.
Jiang says Greek knowledge produced a global revolution in innovation because it spread and synchronized with powerful local cultures, creating new forms of knowledge.
"...answer is because he was trying to capture the essence of Greek knowledge. Okay? He was trying to unify Greek knowledge into an encyclopedia..."
"And how did they do that? and systemize Greek knowledge, and they did this by standardizing the texts, okay? So there's different texts of..."
"...ideas, right? So the most famous synchronization is in the Levant, Greek knowledge was being spread to the Jews. And so when you put..."
"...the academy. And what Aristotle will do is he will take Greek knowledge and will systemize it into a knowledge of empire."
"...to Athens and learn from Plato and he will systemize all Greek knowledge so that he can take this knowledge and turn it into..."
"...what what it will do is it will take all the Greek knowledge in the world it will systemize it and systemize it as..."
"...it means to be Greek. Right? You standardize and you systemize Greek knowledge. Does that make sense? And so that's probably what Aristotle was..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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