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Jiang ranks poet-prophets and civilization-makers such as Homer, Dante, Plato, Jesus, Zarathustra, and Yahweh above conquerors like Caesar, Alexander, and Napoleon.
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Poet prophets
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And it seems life is hopeless. And so what will happen is the universe will send a messenger to remind people there's still hope..."
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"And it seems life is hopeless. And so what will happen is the universe will send a messenger to remind people there's still hope..."
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"And then you have people like Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, who you are conquering, okay? And they have been identified as great..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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