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Ep. 48 Jonathan Bi: Rene Girard - Social Pressure, True and False Desires, Sacrifice, and Belief

The Moral Imagination

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Is There a Perfect Society Out There?

Rousseau thinks that evil comes from the outside. Or, yeah, yes. From social disorder. And so I'm going to say one of the deep separations between modernity and say a Catholic anthropology has to do with human perfectibility. But there's nothing within human nature that says that there can't be a perfect society. Right? So like you've all Harari death is a glitch. All right. If any of us interrupt. Yeah. No, that's good. It seems to me Gerard's rejection of utopianism is I think affirmation that being is good. That's a Catholic deep, the Jewish Catholic affirmation. Like we're not made out of dragons. We

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