Studying an unsystematic founder’s worldview requires scrupulous philological reconstruction

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• Modern philology emerged by secularizing language from divine to human origins (similarity 0.82)
• A philosophy’s historical impact is measured by its sediment in common sense. (similarity 0.82)
• Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.81)
• Doctrine of a people’s divine origin erased internal differences among its members (similarity 0.81)
• Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions (similarity 0.81)
• Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.80)
• African philosophy must arise from its own cultural circumstances rather than replicate other traditions. (similarity 0.80)
• Studying a worldview’s origin requires philological reconstruction and identifying discarded provisional elements. (similarity 0.80)
• A social formation is a complex unity structured in dominance, not an expressive totality. (similarity 0.80)
• Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out. (similarity 0.79)
• Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarianism adopted tribalism for its isolating value even against its own doctrines (similarity 0.79)
• Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish. (similarity 0.79)
• A remarkably uniform anti-Saracen ideology persisted through centuries like a catechism (similarity 0.78)