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[โ€“] driving_crooner 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Listening to the podcast "History of philosophy without any gaps" there's some philosophers, specially in middle age Arabic societies, that had the patronage of warlords, and would change patron for the new warlords who killed their previous one.

[โ€“] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They couldn't exactly keep being patronized by a dead guy.