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Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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Romantic Love Is an Example of Both of These Qualities

"One love agape is not like this at all. It's fundamentally one, a concern for the other for the sake of the other," he says. "Love predicated upon difference then is eros, whereas the love predicated upon Christian equality is agape." The author argues that in societies touched by Christianity, we are first and foremost human.

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