Glossary
Jiang's phrase for the interior field a great book reveals: complicated, complex, dark, and marked by bundled opposites such as arrogance and insecurity.
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Human heart
Jiang's phrase for the interior field a great book reveals: complicated, complex, dark, and marked by bundled opposites such as arrogance and insecurity.
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Glossary
Jiang's name for the shared human drive toward structure, meaning, purpose, love, creation, learning, growth, curiosity, and agency.
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Reading the Iliad gives students insight into themselves because Achilles can function as a mirror for experiences of humiliation, pride, vulnerability, arrogance, and insecurity.
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Arrogance and insecurity are two sides of the same coin in the human heart.
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A great book excites the imagination so readers can peer deeply into the complicated, complex, and dark human heart.
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Forgiveness is the hardest problem in human society, and solving it is what makes a great civilization possible.
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He says voters are rejecting secular liberalism because people seek structure, meaning, power, purpose, and the capacity to love, create, learn, and grow.
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Jiang says people rebel against abstract foreign authority because it destroys structure, meaning, purpose, agency, and the human heart.
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He says Dante and Homer would locate the source of rebellion and social order in the human heart.
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He says societies prosper when they conform to the structure of the human heart and collapse when they repress it.
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"...humiliated so you stopped playing soccer and that tore at your heart. And your phrase was pride and vulnerability. And that shows that by..."
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"...your imagination. It helps your imagination peer deeply into your own human heart and see how complicated, how complex, how dark it is. And..."
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"...in the source of troy the real battle is inside our human heart okay why does achilles fall into depression because he himself knows..."
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"...homer showed us that this is the greatest problem in the human heart and when we forgive each other we make the world a..."
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"...all this? And what Dante and Homer would say is the human heart, okay? The human heart. This is just who we are. And..."
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"...human society, okay? If society conforms to the structure of the human heart, this society will prosper. For example, Athens, right? The ancient Greeks...."
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"...a long time, but to control us, they must repress the human heart. Okay? Because it's in the human heart to want to question...."
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"And my family. Does that make sense? Okay, it's imposing a foreign identity on me. And proponents of the European Union would argue that,..."
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"For children? For pregnant women? Okay? When you go to the park, do people actually pick up garbage and throw it in the garbage..."
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"...curse the ground because of humankind for the inclination of the human heart is evil from you no i ever destroy every living creature..."
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"...struggle is not for power the real struggle is within our heart the real struggle is between ourselves if we forgive ourselves we can..."
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"...theater plays uh plays by euboides aeschylus which are about the human heart the mysteries of the human heart so every day people are..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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