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ASR rendering of Kant's noumena, the things-in-themselves that Jiang contrasts with phenomena.
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Nomana
A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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"...What Kant tells us is that there is something called the Nomana, which are the things in themselves. We can never know the things..."
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"...the world is divided into two parts. Reality itself, called the Nomana. Nomana just means the things in themselves, the objective reality. And then..."
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"And we do this by filtering, the Nomana, through time and space."
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"...So what the right hemisphere does is it connects to the Nomana, the things in themselves, that we can never know. And then the..."
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"...of human history. Okay? And so, we can never describe the Nomana because it is beyond space and time. It's beyond our capacity to..."
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"...Kant say Emmanuel Kant says that there are two realities the Nomana the world the things in themselves and the phenomena the things to..."
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"...So let me explain what he means. For Kant, there's a nomana. The nomana just means reality that is outside of us, the things..."
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"...that allows us to make sense of it, okay? So the nomana for time and space becomes the phenomena, and that's all we see,..."
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"...idea of the Geist. So what he's saying is that the nomana, it's really the spirit world, it's the Geist. And when you do..."
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"...objective reality. There is an objective reality. What he calls the Nomana, OK, or the things in themselves. That is not knowable to us...."
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"We perceive the world, we perceive the Nomana and turn it into the Phenomena for us to process in other words, and this is..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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