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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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Vows
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...be fully human, you must get into the habit of making vows to yourself. Okay? Because that ultimately is what motivates you, what drives..."
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He defines making a vow as an expression of hope, love, and faith, and tells the class these three ideas will organize the next two days of discussion.
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He defines hope as actively imagining and vowing oneself into a future that God then co-creates, rather than passively waiting for rescue.
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The Dante passage distinguishes between the matter of a vow and its formal compact, and it warns that some vowed matter has so much weight that no substitute can balance it out.
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Jiang frames Piccarda's vow to God as a promise so valuable that the usual logic of compensation or substitution becomes unstable, which is why Beatrice is about to complicate the issue.
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The quoted Dante passage says mortals should never take vows rashly, and that Jephthah should have said 'I did amiss' rather than commit a worse act by keeping faith with a bad vow.
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Jiang interprets Beatrice as saying Jephthah should have broken the vow rather than fulfill it through murder, so vow-keeping is not an absolute good when the vow itself is corrupt.
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The student resolution Jiang accepts is that taking vows seriously includes understanding their weight before making them and refusing rash vows rather than blindly honoring any promise once spoken.
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"...be fully human, you must get into the habit of making vows to yourself. Okay? Because that ultimately is what motivates you, what drives..."
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"...idea of hope. The idea of hope is that by making vows, you can create for yourself your own future that you imagine it..."
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"God gives it to you, but you actively imagine yourself, and then God co -creates with you. And love, for Dante, is the unifying..."
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"...weight as four and six thus when the matter of a vow has so much weight and worth that a tip every scale no..."
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"good just moral divine society okay does that make sense all right so um we as humans should strive to create a society in..."
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"let mortals never take a vow in jeth be faithful and yet circumspect not rash as jephthah was in offering his first gift he..."
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"bible well yeah she he kills the daughter okay according to features is this good or bad no it's not a gray area what..."
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"he should have broken the vow she said wake that vow man i don't care if you make that out of god you get..."
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"...think taking it seriously is understanding the the weight of the vows you make that when you make a vow you you know taking..."
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"it doesn't it doesn't help me understand the paradox here"
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"...to say explaining to the paradox where peter said take your vows seriously and don't be like jetta who took his vows too seriously..."
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"Paradise, Canto 5, line 73. Christians proceed with greater gravity. Do not be like a feather at each wind, nor think that all immersions..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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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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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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