A lowly man's thoughts

It seems as if I am compelled to say the following:
Both political parties are unworthy of their perpetual existence.

At the very least, an ass transported the Christian God into Jerusalem.

I have found that, unfortunately, a two party system is not a system able to fulfill the needs of the people. Moreover, a system that does not provide an excellent education to all that are willing and able, is not a system that does not fulfill the needs of the people.

People are speaking of anarchy now-a-days. Why wouldn’t they. People are losing hope in the political puppets that they elect in order to replace the previous terms’ puppets.

Of all people, Catholics, should not identify themselves with a political party, if they are also going to identify themselves as Catholics. We shall continue on this and more later.

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Aristotle writes in the Physics, BK I:

we even see men of experience succeeding more than those who have theory without experience…the reason for this is that experience is knowledge of individuals, and art of universals, [thus] actions and productions are all concerned with the individual’ for the physician does not cure a man, except in an incidental way [for] if a man has theory without experience, and knows the universal but doesn’t not know the individual included in this, he will often fail to cure; for it is the individual that is to be cured.

Today, we are faced with the problem of sciences, especially Psychology, wanting to dive deeper into the realm of universals. Has the attention been given to the universals while taking value away from the individual. It does seem, at times, that we see doctors, scientists and thinkers, give an incredible amount of time, studying ‘John’ in order to better understand everyone else.

The problem we are faced with here, is that we are not treating, learning about and caring for John for the sake of mankind. Yet we ought to be treating, learning about and caring for John for the sake of John. Moreover, our desire for knowledge should come from the opposite part of the ladder. In love, which is the only topic, idea, action, emotion, state that one should strive to live in, or act upon, we will do what it takes, to better understand universals, in order to better serve our fellow particular.

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