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Presented briefly as an Enlightenment celebrity who mocked elites but was not, in Jiang's view, a deep thinker.
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Voltaire
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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"...that make sense all right all right so um this is voltaire um voltaire i don't really want to spend too much time on..."
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"be and as such the middle class basically um worshipped him okay they love his contributions but he himself was not a very deep..."
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"...want to say two things number one it was russo not voltaire who said that yes that's correct yes um and number two just..."
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"...saw herself as an enlightened monarch. She was best friends with Voltaire. They never met, but they were pen pals. And she saw herself..."
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"...we did the European Enlightenment we studied Rousseau we studied Kant Voltaire okay and I told you the British Enlightenment is very different from..."
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"...Europeans will stop what will start to mimic this propaganda so Voltaire the French Enlightenment thinker says that Chinese have the best system because..."
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"...Holy Roman Empire in the West, we think of the famous Voltaire quotation about the Holy Roman Empire. Voltaire is a very famous French..."
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"...earth. All right. So let me conclude by going back to Voltaire's quotation that we looked at at the beginning of class. The Holy..."
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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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The lecture starts with Putin and Ukraine, but it does not stay in policy.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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