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Jiang says charity was one of the chief Christian virtues and that rich people were understood to be obligated to share their wealth with others.
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Jiang says inherited achievement is not just consolation but unfinished obligation: Dante must add his own contribution to the family line even if he gains no fame in life.
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Jiang introduces a new analogy in which a wife demands that bank robbery prove love, shifting the Jephthah problem from sacred promise to distorted interpersonal obligation.
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A student contrasts love with transactional reason by arguing that love accepts obligations without demanding return, whereas reason keeps asking what benefit comes back.
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Because herding is volatile and boom-bust, pastoralists institutionalized loans, obligations, oath contracts, and fluid status rather than fixed bureaucratic slavery.
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In Jiang's reading, The Clouds portrays Socratic reasoning as a technique that lets a son justify beating his father and lets debtors deny obligations.
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"Yeah. So, charity is one of the chief Christian virtues, right? So, we say faith, love, and hope, but back then, it was faith,..."
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"By looking at their achievement, their endeavors, you can also see what they've yet to achieve, and maybe that's how you connect the dots...."
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"Yes. You're part of a family, and you have a responsibility to do your part, right? You have to add to us. So, yes,..."
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"and say it's not the daughter let's just say it's a complete stranger is it okay now okay all right okay so this is..."
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"Yeah, maybe I'm saying just like, you know, in ancient China, people just don't believe in logic. They just believe in, for example, like,..."
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"So cattle and sheep herds can grow rapidly with little luck. Vulnerable to bad weather and theft, they can also decline rapidly. Herding was..."
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"...animals always borrow from those who still have them. The social obligations associated with these loans are institutionalized among the world's pastoralists as a..."
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"...a Christian. The host institution extended the protections of oath -bound obligations to new social groups. An Indo -European speaking patron could accept and..."
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"he's not a god so I swore an oath to nothing therefore I owe you nothing the creditors the credit obviously gets angry and..."
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