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Jiang says a fraudulent world makes it impossible to make promises, contracts, or cooperative social arrangements.
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Promises
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to work together. Do you understand? Right? It's impossible to make promises. It's impossible to make contracts. It's impossible to cooperate. It's impossible to..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to work together. Do you understand? Right? It's impossible to make promises. It's impossible to make contracts. It's impossible to cooperate. It's impossible to..."
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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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Jiang argues that forgiving others for broken promises or mistakes is the other fundamentally human action that, alongside promise-making, expresses and uplifts humanity.
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Jiang says a good, just, moral, even divine society is one where people are empowered both to make promises and to forgive one another.
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"...to work together. Do you understand? Right? It's impossible to make promises. It's impossible to make contracts. It's impossible to cooperate. It's impossible to..."
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"...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 making..."
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"...understand these are the two things that truly human to make promises and to forgive each other for breaking promises or for making mistakes..."
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"...should strive to create a society in which we can make promises and we can forgive each other okay all right um so making..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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