ABSTRACT
Modern social science, unlike old China, is not noted for ancestor worship. Aristotle’s work has become neglected scripture and he an ikon. This is understandable; things change in two thousand years. There was only the most rudimentary capitalism and division of labor in ancient Greece. Aristotle saw connections between equality and revolution. Aristotle, some 350 years before Christ, noted cause and effect relationships. He observed links between what people want and their tendency to revolt when they failed to get it. As Aristotle describes the origins of these tendencies in the basic characteristics of men, they read like some of the teachings of Christ and the writings of Freud. In the face of these antecedents of modern phenomena now being researched, modern social science writings appear to have sprung as miraculously from the writer’s brow as did Athena, very wise and fully armed, from the brow of her father Zeus.
