Jiang's phrase for the universal ethical stance a real world leader must publicly claim and defend, not merely a tactical opinion on one conflict.
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moral high ground
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
Key Notes
Jiang says the live-streamed atrocities in Palestine give China a near-perfect chance to seize the moral high ground, but China has refused to take that opening.
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"...opportunity for china to step up and take the the moral high ground and if china would just step up and say listen uh..."
"high moral ground unless you're willing to articulate a vision that unites all humanity unless you're willing to take risks actually you know basically..."
"...I saw him now, weighed down by death, sink to the ground, although his eyes were bent, but were always on heaven. They were..."
"...possessed of consolation. What makes you keep your eyes upon the ground, my guide began to say to me when both of us had..."
"...level, my eyes discovered people there who wept, lying upon the ground, all turned face down. Atesit pavimento anima mea. I heard them say..."
"...after he repented, he is forced to basically lie on the ground to focus on the present, to focus on life. And Lord himself...."
"...power on the path, watching the shades who lay along the ground who had resumed their customary tears. My ignorance has never struggled so,..."
"...i saw a pool pour from my veins from on the ground wait sorry so let's stop i want to ask"
"...of power and good sordello as his finger traced along the ground said once the sun has set then look even this line cannot..."
"...fortune with his progeny. He who is seated lowest on the ground and looking up is William the Marquis. For him, both Alexandria and..."
"...was sleeping in your body, on the flowers that adorn the ground below, a lady came, she said, I'm Lucia, let me take hold..."
"...whatever makes them suffer their heavy torment bends them to the ground. At first I was unsure of what they were, but looking intently..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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