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Jiang rejects the categories backward and primitive, saying the course should show that those labels are not real explanations.
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Primitive
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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"...Okay? So the question is, is this backwards or is it primitive? Okay. And, what I want to show you this semester is that,..."
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"...really the most comprehensive the most you know uh permissive uh primitive which means this uh the god the s really is the biggest..."
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"...were your ancestors. The earliest religion in every society, the most primitive religion is animistic, shamanistic religions, where the shamans are communicating always with..."
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"...place to which they're re -ascended when they had recovered their primitive purity and simplicity from that luminous region that the soul set forth..."
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"...the Byzantium and the Caliphate had taught the Khazars at their primitive shamanism was not only barbaric and outdated compared to the great monotheistic..."
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"...he used to refer to the Russians as more barbaric and primitive, but when he did so, he did it in the context you..."
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"our intelligence in different ways so primitive cultures they express themselves through art they had better memories they had more they were more sensitive..."
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"...have gone smarter over the centuries civilization is far superior to primitive cultures again this is wrong okay the truth is that with"
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"...who believed that it was Orthodox Christianity that kept Russia feudal primitive backward Stalin is different because Stalin was not a Marxist intellectual he..."
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"...All right, and this religion is still around today in many primitive societies, for example, in the Amazon. And then we transition to the..."
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"...basically a knowledge system. So this is basically like a very primitive computer or calculator. What's left of the Incas is Machu Picchu. If..."
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"...gold. And again, this was an extremely popular practice in the primitive societies, okay? So these are three major sciences in the primitive societies...."
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