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Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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Competition Over Money Can Inflame Metaphysical Desires

David Frum: The two rival classes of Socratic Greece then are shown to be very, very similar in their form. As the distance between the two classes decreased, they all experienced an admiration and urge to imitate the defining practices of the other - commerce and man-boy love respectively. But alongside this admiration was also a deeply felt resentment that saw each other trying to sabotage one another,. devaluing commerce and banning aristocratic practices. He says it's easy to see how fighting over a limited object can inflame metaphysical desires but prima facia is just as effectively effective.

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