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JHONATHAN BI

Mimesis is both the strongest and necessary authority for us to hold normative values. It more than any faculty decides what we think of beautiful, as good ... what laws we think of just or what sexual relationships we think of as legitimate or depraved. Even what we strive to be like. 

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The second part of the lecture on Girard. More in depth look at desires.

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