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Jiang defines eudaimonia as human flourishing, the Athenian ideal of becoming the best one can be.
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Human flourishing
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Greek life was to stand out so you could achieve eudaimonia, human flourishing, as well as achieve erite, human excellence."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Greek life was to stand out so you could achieve eudaimonia, human flourishing, as well as achieve erite, human excellence."
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The host asks whether universal principles of human flourishing can be synthesized across cultures and national histories despite deep variation in experience.
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Jiang argues that the cross-cultural constants of human flourishing are love, creativity, learning, and productive contribution to society.
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Jiang says these flourishing conditions are historically and culturally consistent rather than Western-specific moral abstractions.
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Jiang hopes the post-crisis society that emerges will use game theory and psychohistory to build conditions in which all humans can flourish.
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"...eudaimonia. Eudaimonia. So eudaimonia is a Greek word, and it means human flourishing. Flourishing. And the idea here is to be the best that..."
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"...to synthesize those universal precepts that would form the basis of human flourishing across the board, across boundaries?"
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"I think that every human strives for love, for creativity, and for learning. We all prosper. We all flourish when we are learning new..."
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"So if you just, like, look at the world today, we're heading towards a very dark age. You've got people who have overpopulation. You've..."
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"...Greek life was to stand out so you could achieve eudaimonia, human flourishing, as well as achieve erite, human excellence."
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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The host opens by asking whether history can be protected from geopolitics and ends by asking what to do about elite overproduction.
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