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What does it mean?
Higher forms of thought tend to become the future revealed law; all philosophy ends, in its old days, by becoming religion.
In plain terms
Advanced ideas often turn into doctrine; philosophy eventually becomes religion.
What can you take from it?
Ideas can solidify into belief systems over time.

Where it applies

  • academic study
  • theological debate

Putting it to work

  • trace idea histories
  • critique dogmatic shifts

Questions to consider

  • When does a thought become a law?
  • What distinguishes philosophy from religion?

Another view

Not all philosophical movements become religious.

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