After Anatta : Towards a Girardian Ethics – Part 3
For Girard, imitation is primal and unavoidable: “There is no solution to mimetism aside from a good model.” For Buddhism, it is interdependence that is universal. As I have argued, imitation and interdependence are but the same thing: imitation is subsumed within interdependence, and perhaps the most common evidence of interdependence is mimesis. So much so that certain arguments can hardly be categorised in one concept or the other…