The Landing Will, Latife quotes Gibeon: To the people religious rituals are true, philosophers are false

Latifi says that Qosja chose to be buried as a philosopher, since she knows that religious ritual is simply a human structure and not a transcendent truth.

“Rexep Qosya chose the third for his burial by sticking loyal to a line of thought that, as Edward Gibbon tells us in his monumental work “The rise and fall of the Roman Empire”, from ancient times, distinguished the wise from the common people and politicians: To the people religious rituals are true; to philosophers they are false; to politicians they are useful”, Latifi wrote.

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An important public person in a society may be buried in several ways:

or conforming to the beliefs of ordinary people, for whom religious rituals express a divine reality;

or adapting to the logic of politics, which even from a burial ritual requires symbolic and public benefit;

or as a philosopher who knows that religious ritual is merely a human structure and not a transcendent truth.

Rexhep Qosja chose to be third for his burial by remaining loyal to a line of thought, which, as Edadard Gibon tells us in his monument work “The rise and fall of the Roman Empire”, from ancient times, distinguished the wise from the common people and politicians: For the people, religious rituals are true; for philosophers they are false; for politicians they are useful.