Glossary
A breakdown condition in which institutions, speech norms, and common criteria for truth have eroded enough that truth talk itself becomes unstable.
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post-truth
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...there are moral laws at work, right? We are in a post -truth world, right? We are beyond God. We can be our own..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...there are moral laws at work, right? We are in a post -truth world, right? We are beyond God. We can be our own..."
Key Notes
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Jiang says the contemporary world assumes there are no moral laws at work and behaves as though humans can become their own God in a post-truth condition.
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The packet closes with post-modernism and post-truth as names for a world where even the category of truth becomes difficult to discuss.
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"...there are moral laws at work, right? We are in a post -truth world, right? We are beyond God. We can be our own..."
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"yes okay yes maybe post -modernism so like the annihilation of all the trusted authorities before like the cancel culture movement yes it's"
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"post -truth yeah right you can't even talk about what's true or not uh yes i would say"
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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