In "The Fountainhead," Ayn Rand indirectly states that the current American society is suffering because too many people do not actively focus the human mind in a conscious level to benefit a productive life. ... They argue that idea of a meaningful life cannot be created unless we focus on "Human Excellence" to acquire intelligence, wisdom, and skills from the technological and social dynamics of the world. ...

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By "the collected political systems" (Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17), Aristotle means a collection of constitutional histories of 158 Greek city-states which Aristotle had prepared as a basis for his lectures on politics; by comparison, the United Nations currently recognizes only 174 independent nation-states on earth today. ... [COMMENTS: (1) This premiss is basic to Aristotle's understanding of nature; it occurs in several places in his writings, including Physics II.8. (2) Aristotle distinguishes the capacity of human beings to use language from the possession by many animals (includ...

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