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65: Ibn Khaldun - The Muqaddimah

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Khaldun's Controversy on the Bedouins

Khaldun suggests that group feeling is generated among wild peoples and in other places he suggests that it isn't. He says the Bedouins really need some sort of religious profit or religious figure in order to become effective in forming states and dominating others. But as the group gains ascendants, makes more people subservient, they acquire more wealth,. And the corruption starts from there and prosperity and abundance become their undoing.

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