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The memories that matter to Achilles after death are not worship or fame but his father and son.
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Purpose
Jiang says spiritual purpose can make people capable of feats modern materialist people find unimaginable, such as extended meditation or physical austerity.
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Jiang states the ultimate moral of the Odyssey as seeking love because love gives meaning and purpose to life.
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Jiang argues cancer can be interpreted as loss of faith: the body falls apart when someone stops believing in themselves, life purpose, and relevance in the world.
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Jiang says spiritual purpose can make people capable of feats modern materialist people find unimaginable, such as extended meditation or physical austerity.
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For Jiang, modern loss is doubled: people lack purpose, meaning, and spirit, and also believe those things do not matter.
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Jiang presents Marx's psychological appeal as the claim that human beings are happier when hardship gives them collective purpose than when prosperity leaves them isolated.
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Civilization is defined as history, culture, and values that give life the purpose of maintaining, protecting, and defending one’s civilization, but this also creates prejudice, war, inflexibility, and limits on openness.
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Jiang presents Aristotle's world as motion and change caused by a prime mover, where good means a changing thing moving toward its purpose or telos.
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"And then Achilles says, he reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting. No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus. By God,..."
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"...what is important, what is purposeful, what gives us meaning and purpose. And I discovered that, you know what, I regret my life, because..."
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"...it. You've stopped believing in yourself. You've stopped believing in the purpose of life. You've stopped believing that you have relevance in the world...."
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"...of how smart you are it's a question of faith and purpose and meaning as well the reality is that not"
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"only do we live a life of purpose and meaning and spirit we also think these things don't matter okay does that make sense..."
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"Good morning. So today we are doing Karl Marx. And Karl Marx is one of the most influential thinkers in human history. His contribution..."
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"...as humans, we want to feel as though we have a purpose in life and that we are part of a larger mission to..."
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"And that's the underlying thesis of Karl Marx. All right, so let's start with Marx. Okay, so for us to understand Marx, we first..."
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"...it's a history culture values okay and before everyone understood the purpose of your life was to maintain protect and defend your civilization okay..."
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"...is good is if the thing that changes moves towards its purpose, okay? Or the word he uses is called telos. Telos. Okay? If..."
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"Okay? If you're moving away from your purpose, you're doing bad in this world. Okay? So the example is a soldier. The purpose of..."
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"an individual who sees that through his actions, he or she can shape the direction of history. I can make my own reality through..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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