Sacrifice amid Covenant: From Abuse to Gift in Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines 2019 (Bloomsbury Academic)
Tag: Rene Girard
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS AND BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS-PART II: PLAY, ART, RITUAL, AND RITUAL SACRIFICE
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS AND BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS, PART II: PLAY, ART, RITUAL, AND RITUAL SACRIFICE by Marcia Pally Abstract. This Part II of a two-part article illustrates how research in evolutionary biology, anthropology, archeology, and psychology illuminates questions arising in philosophy—specifically questions […]
Philosophical Questions and Biological Findings: Human Aggression
Have a look at a new article of mine on human aggression: humans are a “hypercooperative” species and violence is relatively late in our development
Philosophical Questions and Biological Findings-Part 1: Human Aggression
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS AND BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS, PART I: HUMAN COOPERATIVITY, COMPETITION, AGGRESSION by Marcia Pally Abstract. This first part of a two-part article illustrates how research in evolutionary biology and psychology illuminates questions arising in philosophy—specifically questions about the origins of […]