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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-01-14, day precision Aliases: pride-and-vulnerabilities, pride-vulnerabilities, pride-vulnerability, vulnerabilities, vulnerability

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Pride and vulnerability

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...and that tore at your heart. And your phrase was pride and vulnerability. And that shows that by reading the Iliad, it gives you..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...and that tore at your heart. And your phrase was pride and vulnerability. And that shows that by reading the Iliad, it gives you..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human (2026-01-14, day precision).

Most connected source reading: Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human.

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Pride and vulnerability

Glossary

A student's phrase that Jiang uses as an entry point into Achilles as mirror and into the paired structure of arrogance and insecurity.

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Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human

2026-01-14, day precision · Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human

Transcript

"...and that tore at your heart. And your phrase was pride and vulnerability. And that shows that by reading the Iliad, it gives you..."

Sources: Reading Transcript YouTube Data Lens:How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The SelfHuman Heart As Civilizational Measure

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human

2026-01-14, day precision · glossary, semantic-ref

Reading

A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...

Sources: Reading Transcript YouTube Data

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