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Johnathan Bi — René Girard and the Philosophy of Innovation (EP.137)

Infinite Loops

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The Intellectual History of Innovation

I've been studying the intellectual history of innovation in my spare time ever since I got the invitation to lecture on it. And as I mentioned before, I think you can basically break up humanities intuitions of innovation into largely three periods. So here goes all the way from Zina Fon who's one of the first at least recorded to use the Greek phrase kenotomia and he was proposing a new way for people to do minds. Then you have the Reformation as well as the Republic period that formed innovation in a way. And then you have our modern industrial period. In this we'll call it in antiquity. The dominant view of innovation was that it was bad that it probably

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