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Jiang says people revise worldview to justify past action rather than simply admit they were wrong, and he applies this to Virgil's imperial poem and self-justification.
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Justification
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Another classroom simplification proposes that absolute will resembles faith while contingent will resembles belief, because belief still asks for justification whereas faith does not.
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Virgil's propaganda makes Roman destruction of Carthage look compelled by Carthage's cursed vengeance, not by Roman savagery.
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In Jiang’s street-fight model, escalation is not just the two fighters; spectators, friends, police, and God become audiences before whom each move must be justified.
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Calibration means timing, structuring, or strategizing a response so that it achieves the strategic objective while preserving justification before spectators and authorities.
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Jiang frames Catholicism as orthodoxy, hierarchy, and justification by works, and Protestantism as direct access, egalitarianism, and justification by faith.
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"he needs to make certain adjustments to the theory in order to make his actions make sense to him right so he knows that..."
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"that he can he's not able to change himself and that's what sin is right sin is you are weighed down by your actions..."
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"...be faith and then contingent will be belief and one needs justification. The other doesn't."
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"Okay, endless war. Alright, so the Aeneid is first and foremost political propaganda. Alright? And so, Rome's epic war is with Carthage. Rome and..."
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"And Iran doesn't. Therefore, the United States and Israel have a huge advantage over Iran, okay? But what I will show you today is..."
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"Push. Push. And then they hit each other, okay? Punch. Punch. And then they start the fight. And then one pulls out a knife..."
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"Because you might hit that person, he might go to the hospital, and you've won the fight, but then you go to prison for..."
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"why you threw that punch in a certain way to the police so that you don't go to jail. Okay? Alright, so another way..."
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"...have three basic ideas, right? There's orthodoxy, there's hierarchy, and there's justification by works. So the idea is, hey, if you want to go..."
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"...okay? And they become extremely wealthy and powerful. The third problem, justification by works, is it leads to hypocrisy. You can be the worst..."
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"And the third idea is justification by works. The second idea is justification by faith. The problem though, of course, is that these three..."
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"...aggression of U.S. bombing against Iran has no basis and no justification whatsoever. For our part, we are making our efforts to assist the..."
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