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For Jiang's Dante, understanding requires prior misunderstanding, and virtue requires sin because correction and recognition of limits drive imagination.
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Virtue
For Jiang's Dante, understanding requires prior misunderstanding, and virtue requires sin because correction and recognition of limits drive imagination.
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Jiang defines arete as virtue, excellence, character, or the special quality one excels at.
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Jiang says Greek victory still carried an ethic of virtue, faith, loyalty to gods, and refusal to behave like barbarians.
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Pausanias’ refusal to mutilate Mardonius shows Jiang’s early-Greek contrast between Greek virtue and barbarian violence.
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Asha is not merely telling factual truth; it is a system of virtue that makes the person a representative of Ahura Mazda on earth.
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The Gathas teach Jiang's core triad of individual responsibility, free will, and moral unity: good thoughts, good words, and good actions.
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Jiang answers the problem of evil by saying virtue must come from vice; humans are born in Drush so they may discover Asha.
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Virtue is what survives bodily death: the good, knowledge, enlightenment, and emotions generated in life continue as the person's real being.
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"So they're not in purgatory, okay? And what Cato is saying is that purgatory is a mountain. They have to climb the mountain to..."
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"And it makes us much more virtuous. And it's this process that drives the imagination. It doesn't make sense. If you want to understand,..."
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"...The first is erite. The second is eudaimonia. So, erite means virtue, excellence, or character. It's something that makes you special, what you excel..."
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"So these two passages show you the difference between empire and the borderlands right? The empire is about mass organization death. The borderlands the..."
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"so what will happen is that now that Xerxes is gone now that the navy is scattered Mardonius is kinda screwed okay? And so..."
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"Pausanias answered I admired your good intentions and your foresight but you have failed to form a right judgment for having highly extolled me..."
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"Agenitai nor those who nor those to whom such things should be pleasing it is sufficient for me to please the Spartans by doing..."
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"...time in history how for the Greeks what matters is their virtue their faith and their loyalty okay but guess what this all changes..."
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"...Asha is, right? What Asha really is, is a system of virtue. By being virtuous, by doing good in the world, you become closer..."
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"And as I mentioned, the global economy is around here. Okay? This is where most of the wealth is. These people are poor, they're..."
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"Okay? What is the truth? Being virtuous. Because you yourself are virtue. Okay? So he wrote in a language called Avastin. And it's a..."
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"Okay? But the problem, of course, is that you lose all your friends. You lose all your family. Okay? That's why people don't do..."
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