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For Jiang's Dante, the necessary first condition of eventual understanding.
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misunderstanding
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...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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model
For Jiang's Dante, understanding requires prior misunderstanding, and virtue requires sin because correction and recognition of limits drive imagination.
diagnosis
Jiang says misunderstanding between China and the rest of the world persists because China cannot understand how the rest of the world thinks and is seen externally as a black box.
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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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"...that's why we have so many cases where there's so much misunderstanding going on between China and the rest of the world, because China..."
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"...itself and we'll be fine? What was the sort of fundamental misunderstanding?"
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"...walk you through why. I think a lot of it is misunderstanding one around how the 123rd STS pararescue actually operates. The story that..."
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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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"...is that the chosen people versus the golem ideology is a misunderstanding of what God wanted. So that the Jews, when they were told..."
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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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"by the way a misunderstanding a misjudgment of what Reagan was actually doing as people who worked with Reagan people like Chas Freeman uh..."
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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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"yeah so um i i think that's a misunderstanding that that there's that there's a the economy between secular and religion um i i..."
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