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Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The Three Good Forces of Modernity Beginning of Love
Christianity sets us free or perhaps just as aptly exiles us from the comfort of circular time and sets us on a linear accelerating path. By thwarting the scapegoat mechanism, Christianity unleashes again four forces within history that slowly but surely take us to the majority which we find ourselves today. The most laudable force that comes out of the Christian revelation and the destruction of pagan culture is love. This love stands in stark contrast to the Greek notion of arrows. Arrows is marked by two qualities: First, a fundamental concern for oneself rather than the object that is loved. And second, arrows is limited often to a select group of individuals or objects. Others use the rest of this lecture then
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