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[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@No5mallf3at No lol. I think this guy's gone way too far and that this Julian Jaynes stuff sounds crazy, but I am sympathetic to the view of Phillip Cary that Augustine invented/discovered the "inner self." But that's different.

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

Lmao let's go

[Institute of Art and Ideas @IAI_TV]

In Homer's Iliad, we rarely encounter the original Greek word for 'I' or much that refers to internal thought or decision-making. https://t.co/4Nl2HcALdo

In this challenging article, cultural theorist Brian J. McVeigh agrees with Princeton psychologist Julian Jaynes' claim that the Homeric Greeks had no internal life or self-awareness.

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@net195 @Samurai_Bat @ChristianityOn His priest friend Raymund Schwager corrected him on this point.

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@net195 @Samurai_Bat @ChristianityOn Well, why do you think the Mathean version of this parable has the listeners say the line that Luke seems to impute to Jesus?

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@stxryboard @Samurai_Bat @ChristianityOn I try to make a habit of reading the commentaries on https://t.co/aXkpx1awM4 for the Sunday Mass readings. It's hit or miss, but when they're good they're life changing.

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@stxryboard @Samurai_Bat @ChristianityOn You gotta start with "I See Satan Fall Like Lightning" and maybe "The Scapegoat." Kirwin and Kaplan have good works that introduce Girard and give you a sense of the scope of his thought. Then read Schwager and Alison for theological applications.

[lev @abookofsymbols]

We all have agency, but I doubt that anyone becomes more capable of agentic action via derision, scorn and shame

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@thewreathwright @MinnieMooreLess @ghostowlredux This is a great place to start

https://t.co/v9HB8fPUAX

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@Samurai_Bat @ChristianityOn For Girard, the Gospels are like these other founding myths except reversed - told from the perspective of the innocent victim and not the putatively justified angry mob. Christ exposes our tendency to sacralize violence, and in so doing becomes the sacrifice to end sacrifice.

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@Samurai_Bat @ChristianityOn Girard is basically just following Augustine here in taking the primordial impulses of man to be under the influence of Satan. Omnes dii gentium daemonia. Girard sees evidence of mimetic violence and scapegoating in ancient myths from around the world.

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@Samurai_Bat @ChristianityOn Say more?

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

The 5 functions of treatment, according to Marsha Linehan (RIP):

1) Enhance Capabilities (skills training)

2) Increase Motivation (individual therapy, focusing on chain analysis, validation, target and implement solutions)

3) Assure Generalization in natural environments (planning, telephone coaching, system intervention)

4) Enhance Therapist’s capabilities and motivation to treat effectively (consultation team)

5) Structure Environment to allow progress (family interventions)

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@albertus3M It's a start, but it doesn't take into account the way God issues specific and particular calls for different groups of people, individuals, etc

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

A philosophy prof friend of mine once asked which ethical theory I subscribed to, and I said: "a combination of divine command theory and care ethics." He surprisedly asked "you think we need God to *command* us to care?"

[Thomistic Disputations @TDisputations]

Modern morality is very female coded.

Empathy, being nice, caring, etc.

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@PeterGraziano8 🔥🔥🔥

[Unworthy Hand @kisstheblade_]

@dwaldenwrites Well what I am supposed to do with all these "There's no 'I' in 'Iliad'" motivational classroom posters now.

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

I like that he and celebrated writer Joyce Carol Oates have roughly comparable levels of religious literacy

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

@JosephBenJ2 @TD_B89 @agostino_harry Nope

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@PAHoyeck It's a Girard thing.

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

Ah,

[DIN Intel Network @DININTELNETWORK]

“As of today, I no longer consider myself a Catholic”

Fox News’ Sean Hannity makes it pretty clear: Trump comes before everything, even over his religion.

It’s a cult.