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65: Ibn Khaldun - The Muqaddimah

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Bedouin Morality

The Bedouins are the most self-reliant, it's the fact of their self-reliance that allows them to meaningfully enter into cooperative action with one another. Their relationship is based on mutual voluntary trust and a perception of roughly equal strength between the members of the group. The people outside of the nobility are what he calls like an indeterminate mass,. Like he compares them to moats of dust and not true individuals.

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