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Jiang says Beatrice treats Jephthah and Agamemnon as parallel cases of stupidity because both men let an oath or obligation override basic moral judgment.
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Moral judgment
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He explicitly refuses the moral binary 'Is America good or bad?' or 'Is Russia good or bad?' and says states must first be understood as what they are rather than filtered through moral simplification.
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Prophetic speech is both prediction and moral judgment because eternal truth includes future consequence and moral order.
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"same stupidity in the greeks chief when her faith when her fair faith made effigenia grieve and made the wise and made the foolish..."
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"also a really interesting story okay so she's saying that there are two really stupid people in this world first is jetba the other..."
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"Is America good or bad? America is just America. Is Russia good or bad? It's just Russia, okay? Just keep that in mind, okay?..."
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"...onto you. So it's both a prediction as well as a moral judgment. Okay? Does that make sense? And so the prophet, the poet,..."
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"...I'm going to show you, what I'm proposing is there's no moral judgment in it. Okay? I mean, obviously in the line, the end..."
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