
Lecture II: Mimetic Desire and Original Sin | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The Root Cause of Metaphysical Desire
The degree to which we experience metaphysical desire is one to one correlated with our pridefulness. Metaphysical desire reveals, above all, one's pridefulness. It shows a fundamental hubris of thinking that we can possess such a heightened degree of being. With this simple translation, leaning on Augustine as Gerard himself often does, that metaphysical desire is the root of all sin.
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