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But they are not yet in the majority, and the belief that the West is in imminent danger of being “Arabized” or “Islamized” is not quite yet mainstream.
Intervention has now been broadened to include education, culture, sport, and ethnicity, in the belief that only citizens who receive equal education and training, and have their historical and cultural specificity recognized, can enjoy genuine equality.
It instills in us an appreciation for the beauty of mathematics, a belief in the inherent values of education, trust in the intrinsic worth of transnational intellectual communities, and interest in scholarly discussion.
All of these views shared the belief that there was something fundamentally dysfunctional about the “terrorist personality,” something warped and unusual that sets “them” apart from “us.”
For Plato, knowledge is “justified true belief.”
What about the justification of that belief?
Self-esteem includes the belief that the EU is a worthy undertaking, the confidence to express that publicly, and recognition of the EU’s true potential for power projection.
This explanation for the high body count defies belief.
But in countries where rental markets are small and function poorly – often a result of a widely held belief that all families should own their homes – financial stability and access to mortgage financing are closely linked.
But, while Romney may summon bravado and strong rhetoric, other world leaders would be unlikely to follow him, owing to the belief (correct in my judgment) that he would take the US – and them – in the wrong direction.
On the contrary, his campaign has featured the same advisers, the same devotion to higher military spending, the same belief that tax cuts for the rich are the solution to every economic problem, and the same fuzzy budget math.
The longer they cling to a belief in magic formulas, the longer the euro crisis will be with us.
This policy of inclusion rather than exclusion is based on political pragmatism and the belief that this carnage can and must stop.
After all, China has been under constant pressure from foreign governments to revalue, in the mistaken belief that a stronger currency would reduce China’s large trade surplus.
Beyond lobbying, the current system is upheld by mythology: the belief that keeping older people in the workforce worsens unemployment.
The analytical case for this belief is strong, but the empirical evidence is weak.
This then produces the fervent belief that government spending must be cut radically, and now.
But the belief that the right to vote would support the right to bread did not quite work out.
But their belief can suddenly be disrupted if plainly visible events contradict it.
The view that Li will tolerate slower growth only above a particular threshold is based on the belief that GDP growth below 8% would hurt economic development more than it helped, and lead to social instability.
Behind the idea of a particular model of growth was the belief that a sensibly ordered state could somehow capture and eternalize the fruits of economic success.
The fact that most gay men are not effeminate, and that most lesbians are not masculine, does not affect this belief, mainly because that kind of gay individual is invisible within the culture.
More recently, NYU social psychologist John Jost has argued that “ideologies and other belief systems grow out of an attempt to satisfy the epistemic, existential, and relational needs of our species.”
Someone who believes that capitalism is unjust shares something with others who hold the same belief.
If that coincidence endures for some period of time, and if the holders of that belief meet, discuss, organize, and agitate in favor of that belief, a group identity develops.
Otherwise, people will build on flood plains in the belief that their government, or the governments of the world, will feel obligated to bail them out, thereby insuring, in effect, bad risks that should not be taken.
But suspicion of government may also stem from a belief that political systems are rigged, and that politicians can’t or won’t improve things because they have become “captured” by entrenched interests, mired in legislative stalemate, or stymied by bureaucracy.
We must honour this order if we do not want to fall prey to the arrogant belief that discovering fragments of truth may enable us to master the universe.
These lessons are reflected in North’s assessment of Western Europe’s institutional and economic development, in which he attributed the Industrial Revolution to two key factors: varying belief systems and intense competition between and within the emerging sovereign powers.
North observed that institutional change is extremely difficult, as it requires overcoming not only vested interests, but also outdated belief systems and mental models.
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