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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 Connection Between Justice and Reason?

I think there's something connected here is that there's a couple of things going on in Catholicism and Orthodox Judaism Catholicism, right? That being is good, matter is good, and that reason is good. But when justice becomes unhinged, we use the rhetoric of the victim to actually do injustice. And then for Gerard is that because Judaism and Christianity, the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament books in the New Testament, open up or reveal that the myths are in fact, satanic. Is that right? Did I get that right? Exactly right. So in some sense, you mentioned the corruption or the secularization of the Catholic virtues like charity, humanitarianism, peace to pacif

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