He argues Anglo-American thought is structured by individual achievement and rebellion against constraint, while Russian thought stresses duty, humility, and rejecting egoic overreaching.
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Philosophy
He argues Anglo-American thought is structured by individual achievement and rebellion against constraint, while Russian thought stresses duty, humility, and rejecting egoic overreaching.
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Jiang identifies philosophy and classical economics as weak points in his analysis and says he will use the summer to study them more deeply.
Jiang says poetry is more effective than philosophy because philosophy remains debatable ideas while poetry enters the subconscious and becomes the building blocks of the psyche.
Jiang argues that science and philosophy grow out of religion because religion first trains humans to imagine internal connections between things rather than be dominated by sense impressions.
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"Okay? So this is what he's saying. He's saying like, no, anyone can become a god. I'm a snake. If I can become human,..."
"Or is it envy? And can envy dwell in heavenly breasts? These, these, and many more causes import your need of this fair fruit...."
"is so focused on individual achievement, you can actually force them into a civil war by exploiting the selfishness, the egotism of the people...."
"He wants to prove he's better than everyone else. And so, to do that, he decides to commit murder. Okay? He wants to show..."
"Okay? So, we're going to read a passage from Anna Karenina. And Anna Karenina is a woman who's obsessed with finding love. And she..."
"I will also need to study economics in depth, as well. So Adam Smith and other economists, because that really right now is the..."
"But, what's important for us to understand is philosophy is not as effective as poetry. Philosophy is about ideas and you can debate these..."
"So the great service that religions have rendered to thought is to have constructed a first representation of the relations of kinship between things..."
"...man became aware that internal connections exist between things science and philosophy became possible. So from religion we develop philosophy and science. In fact..."
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