Quote of the day
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. This, as the sages of many lands have taught us, is a golden rule in individual and group, as well as international, relations.
René Girard
Born: December 25, 1923
Died: November 4, 2015 (aged 91)
Bio: René Noël Théophile Girard was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy.
Known for:
- Violence and the Sacred (1972)
- Deceit, Desire and the Novel (1961)
- The Girard reader (1996)
- The Scapegoat (1982)