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WOF 348: The Power of Mimetic Desire w/ Luke Burgis

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

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We Love Philosophy Together, It's Endless

Aristotle says two people will fall more deeply into real friendship the more they together fall in love with a transcendent third you kno. So it's not just we each other, even. It's together. And our best people, spiritual people, have always seen that. They've always seen the corruptio optimi pessima. We love this transcendent valleseas lewis has this beautiful imagery. I think it seus lewis who describes standing shoulder to shoulder, rather than face to fese, yet gazing upon e transcendent good.

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