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By examining Soroush Dabbagh’s readings of Arendt, Heidegger, and Kant, this essay shows how a philosophical concept can retain its name and authority while losing the distinctions and constraints that give it its determinate meaning. The author calls this mechanism the “banality of concepts” and explores its implications for understanding and popularizing philosophy in the Persian-speaking world.