Lecture II: Mimetic Desire and Original Sin | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
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Is There a Meaning in Being?
What's important may be less so the experience, but the self conception that is generated from this experience about how it flatters our ego and bolsters our identity. Another way other than self conception to approximate this idea of being is spirit. When we say someone is very spirited, think about a classical hero like Achilles. What we aim to capture with the idea of spirit here is that his status, prestige, his honor, his pride has been hurt. This is also what Plato tried to capture with his use of spirit,. The part of our soul that craves honor in contrast to the reasoning and the pettitive parts of the soul that aims at truth and human appetites respectively.
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