Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedCynthia L. Haven: evaluation
24 Aug 2022 Conversations with Tyler Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
“I think that there are too many variables in almost any equation to make it foolproof in that sense.”
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- Cynthia L. Haven
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- evaluation
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- 24 Aug 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Do you think Girard’s thesis of mimetic desire is empirically falsifiable? Or does it suffer from the weaknesses of a lot of continental philosophy? That it’s a big idea thrown out there, and then selectively withdrawn when it doesn’t fit the facts. I think it’s not a prediction, it’s not a way that you can predict something. I think that there are too many variables in almost any equation to make it foolproof in that sense. One of the things that always interests me about René was the way he could pull up factors that you didn’t see in a situation, the thing that you weren’t looking at. What did he think of Buddhism? Because Buddhism, at least on the surface, is an attempt to escape the cycle of mimetic desire.…
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