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Aristotelianism is latently at work in modern science and, insofar as it knows nothing of evolution, it negatively influences existing dichotomies and contrasts and actually hinders understanding of those problems and conflicts themselves.

Aristotle is representative of the anti-commercial, anti-profitability, anti-gain attitude of the mediaeval and early modern Church for his view of human ordering led him to an ethics appropriate only to, if anywhere at all, a stationary state.

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Conservatism is anti-intellectual in its rejection of new knowledge. Paternalistic, nationalistic, and power-adoring with a fondness for authority.

Democracy is not an end in itself but only a means to an end, a method for reaching decisions . ..

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Ludwig Wittgenstein is a thinker who carried further than anyone the fin-de-sickle Viennese obsession with truth in that he seemed to take a perverse pleasure in discovering falsehood in his own feelings and that he was constantly trying to purge himself of all fraud.

Poverty is a result of too little prosperity. It is not caused by the distribution of wealth.

Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as "People's Democracy".