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René Girard and the Rise of Victim Power
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- Dec 9, 2022
- #Philosophy
Globalization, we have been told, goes hand in hand with secularization. As commerce, profit, and technological improvement overtake older value systems, rituals and traditions fall...
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Antonio García Martínez @antoniogm
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Dec 25, 2022
An excellent summary by @g_shullenberger. One place where Girard seems to slightly miss is in prescribing supposedly Greek rule of law as an antidote to the overweening empathy of Christianity, when Hebraic legalism is right there. Perhaps a bit too close to the Pharisees...