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Through Shelley, Jiang presents tragedy as a mirror in which spectators see themselves under a disguise of circumstance and encounter what they love, admire, and would become.
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Through Shelley, Jiang presents tragedy as a mirror in which spectators see themselves under a disguise of circumstance and encounter what they love, admire, and would become.
Jiang interprets poetry and truth as a mirror: Achilles and Odysseus are in the reader, the reader is in them, and observing them objectively helps the reader understand himself.
Reading the Iliad gives students insight into themselves because Achilles can function as a mirror for experiences of humiliation, pride, vulnerability, arrogance, and insecurity.
Jesus cannot have meant simply follow me; Jiang says he taught that the kingdom and divine spark are inside the person, so organized religion cannot save by obedience.
Jiang defines knowledge of good and evil as knowing what is good or bad for oneself, not as abstract knowledge of God and Satan.
"its perfection ever courses courses with a moral intellectual greatness of the age all right so the theater at athens provoked these tremendous feelings..."
"So together we've read the first half of the Iliad and today I gave you an assignment, right? So I have three questions for..."
"jesus said if those who lead you say to you see the kingdom is in the sky then the bird of the sky will..."
"okay so this is a really important idea okay go back to that go to the cave you escape the cave and you see..."
"no way jesus would say follow me and you're good believe in me and you're good he would never ever say that because he..."
"So God's afraid will become like God. Therefore to protect the tree of life he has to banish us from the Garden. Okay? Yeah?..."
"Therefore it's evil. Therefore I shouldn't do it again. Therefore I should avoid this table. So knowing good and evil means you have the..."
"...is little food for censor or hatred it teaches rather than self -knowledge and self -respect nearly i know the life of nature is..."
A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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,...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...
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