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The Faustian refusal to become complacent; for Jiang, it is the activity God ultimately protects.
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striving
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.
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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.
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Faust loses the wager when he wants to stay forever in the moment of civic fulfillment, but angels take his soul because God values striving and mercy over contractual damnation.
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"Okay, so he is an architect, and he is an urban planner working for the government. He's a civil servant, basically. And his job..."
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"But because he's seeking pride in this moment, he's now lost a bet to Mephistopheles, right? He's now become complacent. He wants to live..."
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"In this moment, when he feels he's contributed to development of society, he feels at peace. He feels fulfilled, okay? And so, the irony..."
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"They've snatched it away with cunning even, but whom could I even complain to anyway, okay? So Mephistopheles knows he's been tricked. But he..."
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"...be content that this digression would leave you exempt. Your people striving spare you this lament. Others have justice in their hearts, and thought..."
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"...some parallels but would you say like for example today the striving and working towards ai is kind of like"
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"...mean to be human how should we live what is worth striving for and that's why we're so excited to be doing this workshop..."
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"...body is made of dust. And as a result, it's constantly striving towards evil. And so within us is this constant conflict between the..."
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"...purpose in their lives. And I think that's a goal worth striving for, right? Whereas we're just these empty vessels trying to increase the..."
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"That we're striving for a higher cause. And if you're all about slavery or prostitution or gambling or money laundering, people won't feel good..."
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"...to resolve the elite overproduction issue we have too many people striving for too many status positions now when you do that it's for..."
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"...meaning and purpose to the universe the fact that we're all striving to be better okay virtue truth asha these are all we strive..."
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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.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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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...
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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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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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