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This part is particularly enlightening: The idea of spontaneous order comes from the Scottish Enlightenment, and in particular David Hume who, famously, argued
by DanielRibeiro 14y ago
This part is particularly enlightening:
The idea of spontaneous order comes from the Scottish Enlightenment, and in particular David Hume who, famously, argued against Thomas Hobbes’ assumption that, without some Leviathan ruling over us (keeping us “all in awe”), we would end up in a hideous State of Nature in which life would be “nasty, brutish and short