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Ep. 21: Luke Burgis: The Economy of Desire: Rene Girard on Commerce and our Everyday Life

The Moral Imagination

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How Can We Escape the Cycle of Violence?

There's a lot of different ways that great leaders can help people stop thinking about their petty rivalries and focus their attention on some shared transcendental. The imitation of Christ is taking something as an external model that can help to pull and draw us out of the whatever the medical entanglement we might find ourselves in. Vertical desire would be desiring something greater than the paradigm in which we're in. And you know this is one of the worst soul second half of my book is about is there such a thing as positive amisis?

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