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Zoltán Pető

Zoltán Pető is a historian of ideas, currently working as a research fellow at the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies at the National University of Public Service in Budapest. His research interests include conservative political philosophy from the end of the 18th century to the present day. He wrote his PhD thesis on the political theory of Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, soon to be published as a book. His main area of interest is German conservative political thought in the 20th century.
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The lack of humility, modesty, the lack of deference to one’s superiors, the lack of discipline and respect are the main causes of most of the political and sociological problems
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As philosophical materialism and the resulting transhumanism are atheistic systems of thought, it is extremely important for Harari—as it is for Dawkins—to deny the idea of God. Just as Richard
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