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The underlying force/desire of the world, first one and then manifested into bodies.
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will
The underlying force/desire of the world, first one and then manifested into bodies.
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Will and desire together create the soul: you are what you want and what you move toward.
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Jiang says will and desire together create the soul: a person is what they want and what they move toward.
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Jiang frames the Iliad's plot as a battle of wills that begins with Agamemnon and Achilles trying to impose themselves on each other and produces the Greek crisis before Troy.
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The will to live and fight comes from being conscious beings in dialogue with an infinite and eternal universe.
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Jiang says rebuilding the pyramids would require not just technical ability but massive resources, will, and organization around a shared sacred vision.
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Schopenhauer's model is summarized as one underlying will manifesting into bodies, producing selfish multiplicity, conflict, and suffering because people forget they are one.
causal-chain
Music is the privileged access to will, inspiring Wagner's total art and Ring Cycle as a national form for unifying German desire.
diagnosis
Jiang analogizes Trump to Hitler, Napoleon, and Caesar as total expressions of will, ego, and divine mission with little compassion.
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"Okay. So two words that you will see a lot in Dante are will and desire. Okay? Will and desire. Because will and desire..."
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"mean? Okay, so two words that you will see a lot in Dante are will and desire, okay? Will and desire. Because will and..."
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"...today. Alright, so remember that the Iliad, it's a war of wills. So the epic starts with the battle between Agamemnon and Achilles. And..."
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"...Okay? And that's where our power comes from. Our power, our will to live, our will to fight comes from the fact that we..."
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"...find the resources to do this. Second is the question of will. Why would we want to do this? Because we can't déjà vu...."
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"then it was a massive undertaking but again people were united by a similar vision which is like we're bringing heaven to earth once..."
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"...world is that the underlying force of the world is the will, desire. And the will manifests itself physically in us in bodies. Do..."
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"...arts, the copy of the ideas but the copy of the will itself. Whose objectivity the ideas are. This is why the effect of..."
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"So his great solution to this is compassion. As humans, we must first and foremost be compassionate towards each other and remind ourselves that..."
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"...theatre, poetry, philosophy, everything together to create one total art that will inspire and unite the people. And this is why he spends 30..."
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"But I'll put it in very simple terms. It's 15 hours, four parts. So there are people called the Rhine Maidens. These are river..."
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"...Caesar, Trump, is they are the total expression of the Zion will, you understand? They have absolutely no compassion, no sympathy for anyone. They..."
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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