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Achilles becomes Jiang's example of self-made hell: guilt over Patroclus and Hector traps him until Priam's forgiveness enables self-forgiveness.
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Guilt
In a conscious universe, evil punishes itself: because the universe knows what a person has done, the memory burns as regret, despair, guilt, and shame.
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diagnosis
Achilles' mutilation of Hector is a sign that he has gone insane from guilt and shame rather than a sign of triumph.
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In a conscious universe, evil punishes itself: because the universe knows what a person has done, the memory burns as regret, despair, guilt, and shame.
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To be human is to do battle with one's own heart and become wiser, gentler, more poetic, and more generous through recognized guilt.
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Humans cannot regain dignity by themselves because disobedience created a void and evil compounds when guilt cannot be forgiven.
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A student asks whether serious past wrongdoing can really be made up or self-forgiven.
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Secret societies work by creating trauma, guilt, hatred, and contempt that force members to keep moving rather than rest with their guilt.
diagnosis
Achilles engineers a situation in which Patroclus can die and Achilles can re-enter the war as the glory-winning savior.
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"...now, once this is done, Achilles is trapped in his own guilt. Right? And rather than feeling elation, joy, and being the best warrior..."
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"discuss is this all right so achilles jumps in the battlefield and he kills hector all right and at this point achilles should be..."
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"...he can't even cry for his friend he's so overburdened by guilt okay so that is the issue where"
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"...of it okay your soul burns with regret and despair and guilt and shame it doesn't make sense all right so now you have..."
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"...resolution, okay? This is the epiphany of Achilles. He recognizes his guilt. And now because Priam is able to forgive him, he's able to..."
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"And man cannot regain his dignity unless, where things left emptiness, man fills a void with just a man's pleasure."
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"Okay, so the problem is this. We do all this evil, and now we can't forgive ourselves, so we're stuck where we are, okay?..."
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"For when your nature sings so totally within its seat, then from these dignities, just as from paradise, that nature parted."
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"Okay, so we left the Garden of Eden not because we broke the law. We left the Garden of Eden because we cannot forgive..."
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"Do we, like, for example, if I had done extreme mistakes previously, do I, can I completely make it up or just forgive myself..."
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"If an empire recognized that it could fall one day, it would never ever fall. It's because of hubris. Because it's so arrogant, lazy..."
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"...Secret societies create so much trauma. They can create so much guilt and hatred and contempt that they're forced to keep on moving and..."
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