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3 timestamped hits 3 source readings 2 extracted notes Newest source: 2025-10-21, day precision Aliases: human, humans, theory-human, theory-humans, theory-of-humans

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theory of human

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...okay? What does that mean? It means that it's a theory of human progress. It's a theory of human progress about God. So even..."

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Topic Scope And Freshness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...okay? What does that mean? It means that it's a theory of human progress. It's a theory of human progress about God. So even..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Imagination Came Before Civilization (2025-10-21, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Imagination Came Before Civilization; The Nation Is The New God; Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human.

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Key Notes

theory of human

Glossary

Homer's model of human beings as creatures of empathy, imagination, and willingness to think.

Central model in the lecture.

model

The Iliad's perspective shifts, psychology, and metaphors together produce a theory of the human: to be human is to have empathy, imagination, and the willingness to think.

Timestamped Evidence

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

Transcript

"...in The Origin of Species, right? He presents a new theory of human development that contradicts all Christian teaching, which is the idea of..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Imagination Came Before Civilization

2025-10-21, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.

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