speculative philosophy, which upholds and extols this order with all its defects to the entire neglect of the study of association." - Meaning and context.">
The Theory of Social Organization. Harmonian Man: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier, p. 5.
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This miracle of social concord would result not from direct conciliation, which would be impossible, but from the development of new interests, and especially from the amazement with which the minds of men would be filled on being convinced of the radical falseness of the civilized social order by comparison with the associative or combined, and of the errors in which the social world has been so long plunged - misled by speculative philosophy, which upholds and extols this order with all its defects to the entire neglect of the study of association.

— Charles Fourier

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "This miracle of social concord would result not from direct conciliation, which would be impossible, but from the development of new interests, and especially from the amazement with which the minds of men would be filled on being convinced of the radical falseness of the civilized social order by comparison with the associative or combined, and of the errors in which the social world has been so long plunged - misled by speculative philosophy, which upholds and extols this order with all its defects to the entire neglect of the study of association." in the context of "The Theory of Social Organization. Harmonian Man: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier, p. 5." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Charles Fourier

About Charles Fourier

François Marie Charles Fourier (April 7, 1772 – October 10, 1837) was a French philosopher who wrote on a variety of topics such as social philosophy, natural science and normative ethics. He was an influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream thinking in modern society. For instance, Fourier is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.