Glossary
Jiang's Arendt-inflected description of a uniquely human action that binds people into a shared future.
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make promises
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...all do that make us fundamentally human the first is to make promises okay because when you make promises what you're doing is you're..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...all do that make us fundamentally human the first is to make promises okay because when you make promises what you're doing is you're..."
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"...all do that make us fundamentally human the first is to make promises okay because when you make promises what you're doing is you're..."
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"other bringing promise is not a good thing but but that's half the answer swear huh swear that's that's making a promise what's the..."
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"...you understand these are the two things that truly human to make promises and to forgive each other for breaking promises or for making..."
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"...humans should strive to create a society in which we can make promises and we can forgive each other okay all right um so..."
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"...understanding into us so that we will be able to not make promises such as this it's like it's like prevention it's like a..."
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"...like the first thing is what makes us human is to make promises and then the second thing was to forgive forgive ourselves and..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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