Jiang argues that if spirits or underlying forces exist through faith alone, then faith must itself be an active force of imagination coming from humans or from God.
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Human agency
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"exist for something and he's saying it must exist through faith alone right but then what's faith then and how these spirits come to..."
"...leaves it be and the clock runs itself or is there human agency in the clock running and I think um what I hear..."
"...have diversity of government but you will definitely have much more human agency and human Liberty than you have under the nation state because..."
"...as though you are just a machine, and you have lost human agency, okay? So this creates lots of psychological issues. And that's why,..."
"...as though you are just a machine and you have lost human agency, okay? So this creates lots of psychological issues. And that's why..."
"...a contempt for human love. It is a distrust of all human agency. And these ideas are what will lead to the Dark Ages...."
"...back at this time in human history, we didn't believe in human agency. Everything was ordained by the gods. Okay? So, if Carthage was..."
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