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The student's name for the higher source art draws on beyond self-generated logic.
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inspiration
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is this brilliant work of literature, right, who's given hope and inspiration to millions around the world? And it's persisted for thousands of years...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is this brilliant work of literature, right, who's given hope and inspiration to millions around the world? And it's persisted for thousands of years...."
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He describes the writers of the Bible as being possessed or infused by the Holy Ghost, which is why scripture carries divine authority.
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The student explanation Jiang endorses is that rich admirers, unable to renounce their own material ties, gave property to the Franciscans because they were inspired by them.
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Jiang says the Cathars were hard to suppress because they were unafraid of death and inspired even ordinary Catholics to protect them and, in extreme cases, to join them in martyrdom.
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Jiang says Dante is not writing only for himself or God but also to inspire other readers to accept exile and isolation as the condition for true creativity and service.
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A student suggests the source of hope is the chance to create a masterpiece rather than to seek wealth, with exile functioning as the inspiration that makes great work possible.
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A student contrasts art with philosophy by saying philosophy can remain logical thought, whereas art requires inspiration and expressive embodiment.
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The exchange converges on the idea that destroying a truly inspired artwork would be experienced as acting against God, which helps explain why such art could be protected rather than banned.
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Jiang says that in the historical imagination he is describing, artists like Leonardo would attribute great artworks to God rather than to neural mechanisms or personal technique alone.
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"...is this brilliant work of literature, right, who's given hope and inspiration to millions around the world? And it's persisted for thousands of years...."
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"were really inspirational like rich people some people wanted to be franciscans but they could feel like they couldn't cut off their material ties..."
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"Okay, so let's go into the history of the Dominicans. The Dominicans were founded for a very specific purpose. So, at this time in..."
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"And the Cathars are like, fine. I'm happy to burn at the stake, okay? So, the Catholic Church launches these crusades against the Cathars,..."
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"We will become Cathars ourselves. We will die with you, okay? So that's how inspirational they were. So the Catholic Church is like, what..."
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"Yeah, okay. And that's not wrong. And that's exactly what Francis and Dominic felt as well, okay? But let's, let's think about this, okay?..."
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"He's no different. And he is in the situation where he knows he's going into exile and isolation for the next 20 years to..."
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"Maybe it's kind of inspiration because as a writer, you must have an inspiration. Which could allow you to have great work. So maybe..."
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"you have a yeah uh art is just like expression of like just expression of of of um ideas that you get from God..."
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"why maybe we're not their Bandit of my comedy why not either some history shop come from if someone like Leonardo appears he's able..."
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"it would go against God because they're like Divinely inspired pieces of work exactly you"
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"to destroy an artwork would be to go against god that who dares goes against god right because at this time in history you..."
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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