Boreas Podcast
Boreas Podcast
George Boreas
Mimesis and Scholasticism (Part IV)
1 hour 6 minutes Posted May 29, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail Parts I through III traced mimesis in Ancient Greek philosophy, René Girard's mimetic theory, the Scripture and the Church Fathers. Here in Part IV, we arrive at Medieval Scholasticism. It is said to have baptized Aristotle. With that, it also built a great intellectual edifice that set off the modern Western academia. But Aristotelian demonstratio and scientia is based on natures and teleology, not persons and imitation. The change of focus set a chain reaction that caused t...