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65: Ibn Khaldun - The Muqaddimah

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Khaldun's Preliminary Remarks

Khaldun says that history is information about human social organization, which itself is identical with world civilization. He outlines three very important concepts in his preliminary remarks: Savagery, sociability, and group feeling. Group feeling is a translation of a neo-logism that Ibn Caldune employs, Asabia. And power exists at this collective level as we've said, the group is powerful; it has its own distinct will to power.

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