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The quoted Sidonia passage says reason and utility cannot organize society because great historical movements are driven by passion, imagination, adoration, and command.
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The quoted Sidonia passage says reason and utility cannot organize society because great historical movements are driven by passion, imagination, adoration, and command.
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Kant's model makes perceived reality a product of mind, space, and time, but Jiang says it leaves objective reality, the source of reason, and shared perception unresolved.
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Jiang uses Anna Karenina to reject Western utilitarian romance: reason can calculate attraction and happiness, but the heart operates by its own logic and cannot be mastered.
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Crime and Punishment shows that reasoning a murder into moral acceptability cannot overcome the human heart; reason is nothing if the heart rejects it.
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Jiang defines the European general will as what is in everyone's best interest after reasoned reflection, not what the majority currently wants.
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The French Revolution tried to remove religion but functioned as a religious crusade whose new god was reason.
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Robespierre saved the revolution through virtue and dedication, but his faith that everyone could reason made him unable to imagine self-interested betrayal.
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Robespierre failed where Napoleon succeeded because Robespierre trusted reason and independent judgment while Napoleon appealed to belief, obedience, confidence, and charisma.
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"...ancient and densely peopled kingdom was inevitable. How limited is human reason? The profoundest inquirers are most conscious. We are not in debt to..."
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"...inspired the Crusades. That instituted the monastic orders. It was not reason that produced the Jesuits. Above all, it was not reason that......created the..."
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"...world is this. We are all endowed with the capacity to reason, okay? And it's born in us. We don't learn it, it is..."
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"...That's the first problem. Second problem is the source for our reason. If we are born with the capacity to imagine space and time..."
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"...That the heart is a mystery. It's something that you cannot reason out. Something that you can never fully understand. Okay? In theory... If..."
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"...And this will become a basis for his greatness. And he reasons out that... You know what? As a great individual. As a genius...."
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"And you're like. That makes no sense. But again. That's the beauty of Russian literature. It's focused on what drives us psychologically. It's not..."
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"...but what is in your best interest, okay? If you have reason, if you have the capacity to reason. All right? Now, let's just..."
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"...lives in order to build a new society based entirely on reason."
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"Their new god was reason. Okay? Another idea I want you to remember is that mythologies are prophecies, and prophecies are plans of action...."
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"The French Revolution marks the beginning of liberalism, modernity, humanism, a lot of great things that now define our modern world, okay? We will..."
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"...Revolution would not have been possible. He was a prophet of reason. He believed that everyone had the capacity to reason. So if you..."
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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