might want to connect Girard’s notions of mimetic rivalry with the Hobbesian formulation given here. According to Girard, violence is produced by imitation and desire. Given that humans imitate each other, we often find ourselves desiring the same things. This leads to rivalry, competition, and, eventually, violence. Girard often describes mimetic rivalry as a process of triangulation, with two people desiring (through the imitation of the other) the same object. What I’d like to point out about this is how Girard’s model of triangulation is working with a Hobbesian assumption of
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