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Jiang accepts the room's shorthand that gluttony is the inability to stop desiring or restrain oneself.
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Restraint
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definition
A student restates gluttony as the condition of continuing to eat or desire past the point where one should stop.
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Virgil's answer names free will as the power to curb love even when the source of love is necessary and not self-chosen.
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Jiang says this revises Virgil's account of love by making love capable of restraint and judgment, because loving God truly requires first cleansing oneself of doubt, hatred, and sin.
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Jiang says Iranian restraint in the war follows from a Zoroastrian-style need to fight for light and truth rather than appear as villains.
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Jiang predicts China will not be heard from much in the Iran conflict and can largely be discounted as a decisive participant.
diagnosis
He distinguishes Washington’s revered restraint from Hamilton’s founding vision: Washington could have become king but retired, while Hamilton supplied the imperial-industrial blueprint.
normative
Reason without love's relational restraint can reason its way to concentration camps, nuclear bombs, and genocide.
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"I think, which is why I mentioned not being able to stop. To me, a gluttonous person is a person that, you know, we..."
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"And thus man does not know the source of his intelligence of primal notions and his tending towards desires, or the primal objects. Both..."
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"...to be with God, okay? So love seems to be also restraint and judgment. And this is very different from Virgil, who believes that..."
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"So light versus dark, and then you have a day of judgment. Okay, where the god Ahura Masta will come down and he will..."
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"Right. So I think that's one of the great misconceptions in the world, which is that Israel is dependent on American power. That's not..."
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"So the Iranians could at any point just destroy the desalination plants of... GCC, and then they're done, okay? They are just destroyed. The..."
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"...economic crises will be in Europe. So, Russia has shown tremendous restraint and I think they will continue to do so. But Europe is..."
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"same system let's let's talk about China because China is very different from the United States I mean the Americans are very very busy..."
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"this yeah so um I'm not sure if you had a chance to read Romans of the Three Kingdoms um that is the source..."
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"Dugalem he had all these strategies he had he amassed all these forces but you know when you actually move against an enemy um..."
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"says with this will this all stop short of nuclear war will this happen i think so i i agree with"
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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