The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger
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How Desire Constructs Violence
Hegel's theory is that humans have a more strongly developed memetic or imitative capacity other animals. And so the observation here is that if this imitation, as i brought up before, pertains not simply to a behaviour, but to desire,. then this kind of violent escallation will not necessarily be resolved by this kind of dominant dominant hierarchy. This is something we can observe in the world.
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