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Jiang uses the term for exemplary embodiments of an excellence: Achilles as the warrior and Odysseus as the orator.
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paragon
The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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"...war fighting, and there is speech making. In Greek civilization, the paragon of the warrior is, of course, Achilles. And the paragon of the..."
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"He is the paragon of the warrior. Okay? So, that's the idea of eudaimonia. I can only be happy when I am being my..."
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"...self -made billionaires. This is American dream, right? They were the paragons of the American dream. You come to America, you have nothing, but..."
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"...Romans loved Greek theater, and Greek theater is really the very paragon of Greek civilization. And what this is telling us is that, no,..."
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"...person above humanity, the person above history. So the ideal, the paragon, the example that Nietzsche uses is Napoleon, right? Who's Napoleon? Napoleon is..."
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"...third thing he becomes is a role model okay or a paragon a hero he's telling the French people listen I could have become..."
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"...he killed himself he became a scapegoat a martyr and a paragon of virtue a hero to the people people will feel guilty for..."
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"...like America is some kind of a parrot, you know, a paragon of, of, of, uh, empathy. So it's really a worldwide shift that..."
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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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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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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