A.C. Grayling - How Belief Systems Work

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Why are 'belief systems' so powerful? How do they control religion and politics and all ways of thinking from a scientific worldview to conspiracy theories? What is a 'belief system'? It is a set of tenets or convictions that support each other, such that the whole system governs individual beliefs. How we believe may be more important than what we believe.

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Anthony Clifford Grayling is an English philosopher who founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London.

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