The Nature of Human Being
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- Created on: 05-04-16 16:34
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- The Nature of the Human being
- Hobbes
- State of Nature
- matter in motion
- human being is a machine whose activities are inertial movements
- mind operating on mechanical systems
- governed by passions. Naturally greedy and violent
- desire or need - fulfilled without rational thought
- self interested - purpose to preserve his own existence and seek his own advantage
- Reason
- extend of our selfishness
- rationality makes us survive
- we do not let our passions govern ourselves
- society
- a stronger figure in order to create peace and no fight thanks to laws
- Natural law theory
- natural parts of our human essences are more important than the politic ones
- CRITICISM
- locke - humans do not lose the right to live, to enjoy life
- State of Nature
- Rousseau
- State of Nature
- man's original conditions was marked by natural goodness, self sufficiency, radical freedom and amour de soi
- noble savages
- humans naturally kind and by instinct not violent
- Fall (birth of sociality and private property)
- greedy, violent and jealous
- human more selfish and egocentric
- qualities of reason and amour propre
- human more selfish and egocentric
- reason
- radical problem of man's behaviour
- cause by which they started to compare themselves
- killed the pity and the compassion in ourselves
- greedy, violent and jealous
- however: civilisation and language useful for innovation even though he hated capitalism and private property
- bogus social contract
- based on individual wish
- genuine social contract
- based on general will
- CRITICISM
- his environment can't make him act badly
- State of Nature
- Hobbes
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