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One traditional form of arete, exemplified by Achilles. Jiang defines it as imposing reality by force, brute strength, and obedience.
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war fighting
One traditional form of arete, exemplified by Achilles.
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Jiang says traditional Greek arete has two major forms: war fighting and speech making.
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For Jiang's Greeks, war fighting and speech making are the same civilizational act by different means: both try to impose a reality on others.
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"...excel at. And traditionally, there are two types of erite. There's war fighting, and there is speech making. In Greek civilization, the paragon of..."
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"...when I'm achieving my true potential. Okay? Now, for the Greeks, war fighting and speech making are really the same thing. But for different..."
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"...interesting yeah he's a jerk tell me more yeah we've been fighting for five months okay you keep you keep on going and the..."
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"...Trump's recent interviews, he's claiming that the leadership in Iran are fighting themselves, but then he's also saying in other interviews that they don't..."
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"...the American empire, doing a bidding of the American empire. It's fighting against Lebanon as well as Iran. The Iranians, they don't have much..."
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"...because you have to invest so much of your resources into fighting these wars that back up your nation. China doesn't want to fight..."
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"...the rest of the world is in conflict, right? Europe is fighting with Russia. The Middle East is in flames. America is distracted trying..."
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"...no one pays attention to because all the big boys are fighting each other. You can come in and dominate the school now. Who..."
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"...are the United States and Russia and Right now they are fighting a proxy war in the Middle East between Israel and Iran Where..."
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"...We're not change because now is the time where they are fighting each other."
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"...fundamentally the way they perceive the world is different and they're fighting to impose their own reality on others. Okay. All right. So this..."
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"...the Euphrates. And that's what they must achieve. Okay. So they're fighting this war not to defeat Iran, but to achieve the Greater Israel..."
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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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