
Lecture II: Mimetic Desire and Original Sin | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The Importance of Mimises
The significance of mimises is that it is an authority that provides normative certainty. There's some real biological basis to the idea that doing and observing the same behavior are somehow intimately connected. A primary but not exclusive way to be certain that we are right is mimises.
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