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For Jiang's Dante, the necessary first condition of eventual understanding.
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misunderstanding
For Jiang's Dante, the necessary first condition of eventual understanding.
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For Jiang's Dante, understanding requires prior misunderstanding, and virtue requires sin because correction and recognition of limits drive imagination.
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"...for us to understand, we first have to misunderstand, okay? It's misunderstanding that leads to understanding. We have to correct ourselves in order to..."
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"And it makes us much more virtuous. And it's this process that drives the imagination. It doesn't make sense. If you want to understand,..."
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"...itself and we'll be fine? What was the sort of fundamental misunderstanding?"
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"...That's what the, um, vice president said. Oh, it's a legitimate misunderstanding. We thought that Hezbollah wasn't part of this deal, but the Iranians..."
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"...But Iran and Israel are enemies. Okay. So this is a misunderstanding. Ideologically, Iran and Israel are enemies. But I want to teach you..."
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"So this is a misunderstanding. Ideologically Iran and Israel are enemies. But I want to teach you three basic principles or rules of geopolitics...."
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"Okay, so what they're saying is, it's all misunderstanding, Paul. We don't know what's going on. Why don't you tell us what's going on?..."
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"...and the barbarians, okay? The problem is that this creates a misunderstanding. And we can't really explain why is it that throughout human history,..."
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"...find gold, he'd be happy to go. But there was a misunderstanding, because these were two very different civilizations. So during a religious ceremony,..."
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"...culture. It's cultural. All right? So we have this prejudice or misunderstanding about civilization. All right? Civilization. Civilization is about cities. It's about writing...."
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