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Jiang says making promises is a fundamentally human action because a promise binds one person to another and binds both of them to an imagined future.
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Hannah Arendt
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Another student, using Hannah Arendt's promise-and-forgiveness frame, argues that Jephthah should have forgiven himself for breaking the promise instead of honoring it through murder.
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Jiang presents Arendt's totalitarianism thesis as the destruction of individual judgment until people can no longer distinguish fact from fiction or true from false.
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"can serve as substitute okay so the idea here is that take your vows seriously so in our book the human condition henna around..."
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"that you need to sort of have more tact okay uh yes well my answer would be that um hannah aaron said that like..."
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"...tremendous carnage, catastrophe of what, what had happened. Okay? This is Hannah Arendt and she wrote a book called The Origins of Totalitarianism. It..."
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"...states. Okay? This is Karl Popper. And Karl Popper is like Hannah Arendt, a European Jew who escaped the devastation of the Holocaust and..."
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"...narrative. And, you know, one of my favorite books is actually Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. It's a fantastic book. Yeah, yeah. In my..."
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"...and years planning this out meticulously, right? Because I also read Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil, Ekman in Jerusalem. So, I just assumed in..."
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"...Immanuel Kant, but you have also many other great thinkers, including Hannah Arendt, who was a Jewish philosopher. And who was considered one of..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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