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Jiang says the Iliad makes even observers such as Nestor alive, so main and supporting figures alike have real emotions, feelings, and experiences.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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"...two main characters have a life of their own, but the observers have a life of their own as well. So in the Iliad,..."
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"...what don is saying is that no we are not passive observers we are active participants in the universe and we have a responsibility..."
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"...that's what don is saying ultimately okay we're not just passive observers right marx would say that um there's these structural economic forces that..."
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"consonants between the creator and the observer or the experiencer"
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"...on my capacity to make accurate predictions. I'm no longer an observer. I'm a player. Okay. And I also get a lot of influence..."
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"...beginning um the fight was over the pittiest things and the observers think oh well you know let's argue and push each other and..."
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"...is from Kant. And Kant says that rather being a passive observer of the world, meaning that we just absorb experiences and turn them..."
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"...he tells us is this. Traditionally, we've understood ourselves as passive observers of reality. Okay? This thing is before us. We stand before it..."
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"...So what's important to understand is that we're not just passive observers of reality. We're active participants in reality. That's why Kant teaches us...."
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"...always been a very curious person. I've been a very astute observer. I'm very interested in why people behave the way they do. I..."
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"...sunshine state i'm greg carlwood and many of the most insightful observers have professed that time is not the up and to the right..."
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"...lived, because he introduced us the idea that we are not observers of reality, we are participants in reality, all right? So let me..."
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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