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Jiang's distinction for myths, gods, and spiritual explanations that may not describe literal events but reveal psychological or metaphysical structure.
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not factual but truthful
Jiang's distinction for myths, gods, and spiritual explanations that may not describe literal events but reveal psychological or metaphysical structure.
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"...and spirits okay and even though it's not factual it is truthful in that it allows us to better understand the universe it better..."
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"have you guys have to understand this idea there's nothing truthful about what um chat to be says all it's trying to do is..."
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"...poetry. We want you to understand that Dante is conveying his truthful paradox. And you try to unravel this paradox, and the truth slowly..."
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"...poetry. But what you understand is that Dante is conveying his truthful paradox. And you try to unravel this paradox, and the truth slowly..."
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"...beautiful. It's poetry. But it's beautiful. It's beautiful because it's also truthful. Okay? Because they feel as though Achilles is a real person with..."
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"...for debate you can say that a God is uh being truthful and little and says that if you touch that tree you will..."
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"...again, this is not factual. Athena doesn't really exist, but it's truthful in that it gives us insight into how the human brain and..."
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"...focused on him, okay? So this is factual, but it's not truthful. Do you understand? It doesn't give us insight into why this is..."
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"...that it's not as powerful it's not as intriguing not as truthful Priam cannot sleep and toss in his bed his wife and his..."
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"...his head anyway okay so it's less powerful it's um less truthful it's less interesting okay all right now comes the most powerful part..."
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"So you need to recognize this, be truthful to yourself and focus on real learning. Okay? So what do I mean by that? Okay...."
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"...Yourself. And. Can. Save. Civilization. Okay. If. It's. Logical. Then. It's. Truthful. And. The. Romantics. And. The. Idealist. Sorry. The. Romantics. Are. Saying. No...."
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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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