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The next lecture will show how the Greeks, Israelites, and Persians interact historically.
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Greeks
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Jews, Greeks, and Persians are presented as the three most creative peoples of the period and as pillars of Western civilization.
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Modern materialism shuts down the right hemisphere and therefore makes contemporary people less creative than the Greeks.
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Jiang says the Greeks were mainly pirates at the beginning, and the Mycenaean assault on Troy was driven by Troy’s strategic control of the Aegean Sea.
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Jiang distinguishes Greek, Roman, and Viking selfhood: Greek excellence means standing out in politics, Roman piety means loyalty to tradition and conquest, and Viking excellence means adding to the communal story through courage and adventure.
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Rome is described as expansionist by nature, a war-like people and war machine whose control of Italy brought it into conflict with Greek coastal colonies.
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Greek culture is modeled around arete, freedom of speech among peers, and eudaimonia, producing extraordinary creativity but also selfish city-state fragmentation.
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Jiang claims Christianity emerged from the synchronization of Greek knowledge with Jewish culture and would not have been possible without Aristotle's work.
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"And unfortunately. This is what the Greeks taught us. That hubris is the greatest evil in the world. It leads us into insanity. And..."
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"...is i've gone over into the three major civilizations okay the greeks uh the israelites and the persians that that have come after Frühling..."
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"...have any more questions? Okay, great. Okay. So we've done the Greeks, we've done the Jews. Next class, we'll do the Persians. Okay? And..."
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"...So, you know, it's one of those great qualities about the Greeks of that time. They saw themselves as citizens of the world. You..."
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"...have access to wisdom okay the wisdom of Homer and the Greeks and that's why back then the Greeks are much more creative and..."
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"...there are lots of islands scattered around Greece. And so, the Greeks, in the beginning, were mainly pirates. Okay? So, the people who invaded..."
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"Okay? As you can see, during the Trojan War, what will happen is you have different people of Mycenae go attack Troy because it's..."
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"...of devotion to Putin they will return Istanbul back to the Greeks."
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"That's what I think Putin envisions things playing out and that's what I think will most likely play out. Do you actually see Turks..."
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"...politically absolutely ethically still intact but Constantinople is returned to the Greeks and Hagia Sophia is returned as a Christian church and not an..."
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"...and the individual. Okay? So, for example, let's look at the Greeks. The Greeks, sorry, let me, let me do this. The Greeks believed..."
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"That is the Greek understanding. Then you have the Romans. The Romans define community as tradition and history and place. As long as you..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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