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An ancient model of personhood as layered, real, and influenced by family, culture, history, and divine forces.
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soul
An ancient model of personhood as layered, real, and influenced by family, culture, history, and divine forces.
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The forever memory of all one's lives and one's connection to the spiritual.
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Will and desire together create the soul: you are what you want and what you move toward.
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Jiang says will and desire together create the soul: a person is what they want and what they move toward.
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Fully pious Aeneas must abandon pity, emotions, and his own soul in order to serve the gods.
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The ancient soul is modeled as layered and relational, shaped by family, culture, history, and possibly gods, whereas modern psychology compresses it into the simpler idea of worldview.
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Athena is interpreted as part of Odysseus' soul, an intuition that tells him something is wrong and he must stop the army's flight.
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He identifies the shield with Achilles' soul and consciousness: a universe unto itself composed of many people, scenes, and memories.
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Only through trauma, pain, and suffering can one access empathy and wisdom; spending a life with the Iliad can give a person a universe in the soul.
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Beautiful poetic language reawakens memory because human beings are always in a process of reincarnation.
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"...Okay? Will and desire. Because will and desire together create your soul. Okay? So in the Vine of Commonly, you will see these two..."
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"...okay? Will and desire. Because will and desire together create your soul, okay? So in the Divine Comedy, you will see these two words,..."
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"...pity. I must abandon all emotions. I must abandon my own soul if I am to serve the gods."
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"...we can analyze what's going on, and to think about the soul. And the soul is something that the ancients were really concerned about,..."
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"It has almost infinite dimensions. There are different layers to the soul. And there's really... Okay. There's really a part of the soul that..."
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"...right? Athena is always part of Odysseus. It's part of his soul, right? The intuition. And his intuition tells him, there's something wrong here...."
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"...so we said that this shield of Achilles, it's actually the soul of Achilles, okay? What his consciousness is, what is inside him. And..."
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"...much more wise person who now has a universe in your soul, and that will make you invincible and eternal, okay? But it's your..."
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"Iliad, any questions? Ask a question, guys, come on. Do you guys understand this? Does it make sense to you? We're gonna ask a..."
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"...the divine and to the present, certain words will spark your soul. And your soul is the forever memory of all your lives and..."
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"varsa. You are only a spirit of protecting you, the explanation, the power, your gift, or what you call wisdom and neglected your humanity...."
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"So you have all these past lives in you that you don't remember. But a certain word, a certain poem will reignite, re -enaminate,..."
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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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...
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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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