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Jiang marks the French Revolution as fundamentally idealistic because it believes people can reason toward the common interest, whereas the American Revolution denies this premise.
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Jiang marks the French Revolution as fundamentally idealistic because it believes people can reason toward the common interest, whereas the American Revolution denies this premise.
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"So in other words, society, if it is to function well, must be based entirely on the general will and negate the particular will,..."
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"It believes that people are capable of considering the common interest. The American Revolution denies this, okay? So we will discuss the American Revolution..."
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"...of the Torah any more than it was of a socialist idealism of the left Zionist of 1948, who set the political tone of..."
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"...humanity may have begun as a sacred, uh, sincere stroke of idealism. But it has since become a uniquely potent formula for consolidating resources..."
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"...in his own right. He's considered the founder of a German idealism school. And he explains that, okay, if we want to create a..."
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"...writing because it really shows you his thinking his optimism his idealism. Okay? So let's read it together. Supposing that we had produced in..."
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"...All right? And all of them are driven by a republican idealism, okay? They want France to become a republic. They want France to..."
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"...objective is precisely what creates our strength and our weakness. Our idealism is what gives us power. Okay? Our strength because it gives us..."
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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