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He frames the whole human cognitive system as socially oriented: it is designed for cooperation, competition, and interaction with others.
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Human nature
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Jiang treats the emotional plausibility of Virgil’s jealousy as one reason the Comedy gives readers insight into themselves and ordinary human nature.
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He compares the witches' prediction to modern statistical or medical forecasting in order to show that superstition is one version of a broader human habit: obedience to ideas about the future can license reckless action.
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Bromwich says Shakespeare knows nihilism, including Machiavellian nihilism, but portrays it as one recurrent human possibility rather than endorsing it as his own final wisdom.
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Jiang says that to be fully human a person must get into the habit of making vows to himself or herself, because vows motivate movement toward a higher good.
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Jiang says Dante fundamentally reimagines what it means to be human by placing faith, hope, and love above all other virtues.
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Jiang says humans are born good because God's spark of life is in them, but free will lets them choose evil and then spiral farther away through compounding mistakes.
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A student argues that Dante's topics are eternal and human, which is why people may still be learning from them even thousands of years later.
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"So, yeah, so the memories are divided into emotional values. You remember what has emotional value unless you use brute memorization to remember useless..."
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"that you're my fan or upset yeah yeah it's just human nature okay and that's why the line comedy is something that resonates with..."
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"...just obedience to ideas about the future has been common in human nature forever and shakespeare's using it"
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"...is not going to comment on the things he sees in human nature in human nature and society he shows you good and he..."
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"Okay. Yeah, that's a really interesting question. So, what I will say is that... What Donnie will say is, to be fully human, you..."
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"say this, but it's like basically us going to the Middle East right now and saying, oh my God, this place is hopeless. They're..."
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"they keep on going now set your sight on what derives from that this nature thus United to its maker was good and pure..."
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"good okay And we know we're born good because in the Bible, it says that when God created man, God breathed, breathed the spark..."
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"Yes. Well, I think, uh, these topics are eternal and that's what make us human. So even after maybe 5,000 years where somebody will..."
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"Okay. So it's hard for you to predict what the world will look like because it hasn't happened yet. All right. It's important to..."
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"The spark in us hasn't been activated yet. Okay. But in the circumstances that require us, we will become creative. And this has been..."
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"but again we humans are extremely resilient just because there's more electricity just because we can't drive our cars just because we can't buy..."
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