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Old 12-07-2009, 01:09 PM   #369
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I agree, humans are social (and consequently I guess political) animals. So? The next paragraph does not follow or even relate to the first.

How can religion discover the mass of a proton? How can science say some rights are inalienable? How can philosophy create a method of doubling lifespans? How can science deal with the social and political consequences of that?

I've got recommend this book right here. It's a classic.

Basically the scientific worldview of assuming that everything is reducible to a series of described phenomena forms the world view of modern politics.
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