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Category: Patricia Crone

ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion

culture, epistemology, ideas

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

culture, politics

It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times.

history, nationalism

we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.

history, illusion, religion

It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times.

history, nationalism

we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.

history, illusion, religion