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5 timestamped hits 1 source reading 3 extracted notes Aliases: antigones

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Antigone

Jiang presents Antigone as arguing that human laws must conform to justice and cannot simply become legitimate because a ruler commands them.

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Historical-religious account stated on 2024-10-17.

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Jiang frames the burial of the dead as a sacred matter in Greek belief because the unburied dead cannot find peace in the afterworld.

Interpretive claim about Antigone stated on 2024-10-17.

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Jiang presents Antigone as arguing that human laws must conform to justice and cannot simply become legitimate because a ruler commands them.

Interpretive claim about Antigone stated on 2024-10-17.

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Jiang presents Antigone's principle as divine, unwritten, immutable justice that human laws cannot override.

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Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"...So it's a very serious thing not to bury the dead. Antigone, who is the daughter of Oedipus, and the sister of Polyneses, she..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"...sentences her to death for disobeying him. Okay? The problem is, Antigone is the fiancee of Haman, who is Creon's son. So Haman, the..."

The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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"...hubris creates all sorts of problems. So remember in the play Antigone by Sophocles, the king Creon sentences Antigone to death even though it..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"...talks to a fortune teller. And the fortune teller tells him, Antigone is right in this situation. You have to save her. If you..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"...his anger and in his grief, he kills himself. So both Antigone and Haman are now dead. And when Haman's mother finds out about..."

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