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The next lecture will show how the Greeks, Israelites, and Persians interact historically.
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Greeks
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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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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Eudaimonia is presented as flourishing under uncertainty: because fate cannot be controlled, one should live today to the best of one's ability.
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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.
diagnosis
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.
model
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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"...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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"...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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"...unlucky and the gods kill him too bad if you read greek mythology and we will do so in this class okay we'll go..."
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"...your ability and that's why guess what guys the ancients the greeks they were superior to us if you read greek literature you read..."
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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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"For them, community and the individual are very different. The community is are told over and over by the people inside the community. And..."
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"...the coast. Okay? And this brings them into conflict with the Greeks."
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"Because remember, the Greeks, when they built colonies, they built it either on islands or near the coast. Because that's what allows them to..."
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