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He contrasts Paul and Dante by saying Paul teaches trust in a divine plan, whereas Dante says human beings are the plan that brings faith, hope, and love into the world.
Jiang restates that history is driven by human beings rather than by impersonal structural or economic forces.
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.
"a way for us to understand the difference is paul saying there is a plan and trust it okay trust the plan what don..."
"it's not determined by the action of human history and it's not determined by the action of choices that we make that's what don..."
"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..."
"...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..."
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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