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Jiang says the right learning process begins with emulation and only later becomes genuine intellectual selfhood, which is why he openly acknowledges Bromwich as a formative teacher without trying to become a copy of him.
He distinguishes between society exploiting a person through an imposed telos and a person actually understanding and achieving a genuine telos.
Jiang's own answer is that the AI-wife case is usually worst because it expresses despair and the abandonment of self-seriousness.
Jiang argues that once someone violates a vow, the deeper danger is habituation: the act changes self-understanding and makes repeated betrayal more likely.
He says denying a person's thoughts as true is a form of gaslighting because thoughts are constitutive of the self.
Jiang defines eudaimonia as flourishing: happiness and selfhood become possible only when one is achieving or expressing one's arete.
Achilles' misery while sitting out the war comes from being prevented from fighting; without fighting, he cannot be Achilles.
Jiang contrasts Odysseus' outward, collective 'we' reality with Achilles' inward, self-absorbed 'I' and 'me' reality.
"glad to stay up late for this thank you thank you so much okay well that was professor bramwich and um again he was..."
"build aristotle and that's a very interesting analysis at this time aristotle is very popular and dante would have known aristotle he would have..."
"that's your telos but what donnie would say no no no you trust your intuition right if your telos is like i just want..."
"answer is number three okay um and how and how we know is we can actually go back and and like use the the..."
"Okay. Let me ask you this question. Okay. Let's imagine your husband and she and she and your wife once. Okay. What are you..."
"God and before people, you're. Making a contract with yourself. And if you break this contract, you'll probably keep on doing it because it's..."
"But you yourself must take the initiative. I can offer you some guidance. I can offer you some knowledge. But your heart must be..."
"Okay? So, these are the two great characters in Greek civilization. Achilles, the great warrior, and Odysseus, the great orator. Okay? Eudaimonia means flourishing...."
"He is the paragon of the warrior. Okay? So, that's the idea of eudaimonia. I can only be happy when I am being my..."
"Okay? Internalize this new reality. Right? And Achilles knows this. And Achilles refuses to be beaten. Right? So Achilles, through his speech, counters Odysseus..."
"But poetry defeats a curse which binds us to be subjected to the asinine of surrounding impressions, okay? Do you understand this idea? The..."
"There's also a part of me that steps back and analyzes what I say. Okay? It has to make sense to me, it has..."
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks 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 the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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