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A student says the Divine Comedy can surface guilt by forcing attention onto morality that daily life normally numbs or hides.
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Morality
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Key Notes
definition
A student proposes that human life should act in accordance with natural law, defined as the morality set up by God.
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Jiang says the major mistake in popular historical thinking is to impose moral labels such as good and bad on large civilizational processes.
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He defines the Kabbalistic schema as requiring moral acceleration through sin and repentance, arguing this underwrites why doing evil may be treated as a path to eventual redemption.
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The Rousseau passage read aloud claims that renouncing liberty is incompatible with human nature and destroys morality, rights, duties, and reciprocal obligation.
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Jiang says societies avoid easy money from gambling, prostitution, human trafficking, slavery, or money laundering because immorality destroys energy, openness, cohesion, and the soul.
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Tragedy converts sorrow and pity into wisdom, reflection, empathy, and morality, making Greek drama a moral technology.
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Jiang says British utility-first philosophy aligns with Frankist materialism by rejecting biblical and first-principle moral limits.
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"I don't believe that it can change people. Because before that... Maybe people thought, oh, I just cheat. I do whatever I can. Nobody..."
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"...act in accordance with natural law. What is natural law? The morality that's set up by God."
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"So a major problem with how history is taught, how we think about the world is we apply labels to things, okay? Like good,..."
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"Because people are getting emotionally attached and getting riled up. I do like the approach. There was a moment where one of your students..."
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"possible for solutions to arise so you don't really speak about what should be rather you speak about what is it's really easy to..."
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"right like let's not do war let's not do Empire let's all just get along but"
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"that's not happening so why is that not happening and I of hearing what I was doing a preparation for this conversation they're saying..."
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"This is the fractal that underpins the Tree of Life, which underpins the entire universe. Okay. You can see how you have these fractals..."
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"The Russian tradition believes in the concept of the catacomb. All right. Which is to stop the end of Christ, which is like, let's..."
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"And then the Israelis will beg for forgiveness. And that is what will cause a reunion between the Jewish people and God. Okay. And..."
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"...To remove all freedom from his will is to remove all morality from his actions. Finally, an agreement to have absolute authority on one..."
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"...do it? Because it's immoral, okay? As a society, you need morality in order to create energy, openness, and cohesion, right? People want to..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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