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It seems to me that one of the primary purposes of society it to mitigate the inequality found in nature. That is to say: A system where the strong and/or lucky
by harimau777 3y ago
It seems to me that one of the primary purposes of society it to mitigate the inequality found in nature. That is to say: A system where the strong and/or lucky thrive and the weak and/or unlucky suffer doesn't need society, it's what happens by default. People band together into a society in order to thrive collectively despite their various weaknesses.
- AlbertCory 3y agoNo, that's only your opinion. Millenia of scholarship about societal origins have never said that.
- harimau777 3y agoNot really, it's basically what Hobbes argues in Leviathan. What are you basing your assertion upon?
- AlbertCory 3y agoNo, he doesn't. That's your gloss on Hobbes. He didn't mean "inequality" in the modern liberal sense that you are using it. You cannot import modern "thinking" (if that's the word for it) back to the 18th Century. I suppose you're going to seize on the word "inequality" here: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/jean-jacques-rousseau/ https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/ch...