PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Distributive Justice, Total War, List Of Domesticated Animals
7 Feb 2017
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Just as a domestic animal differs from a wild one, so too does civilized man differs from. The savage; i. e. man truly in a state of nature. Man in a state of nature is primitive, in an animal state, wholly unenlightened but this does not, contra hobbes, involve total war. Knowledge is influenced by our desires we desire something, know what we want, and develop knowledge to obtain what we want we desire knowledge only because we wish to enjoy (21) The range of savage man"s desires are limited; his desires never go beyond his physical wants (21) Limited desires involve less occasion for conflict, less occasion for vice. Let us not conclude, with hobbes, that because man has no idea of goodness, he must be naturally wicked (21) Savage man naturally loves himself and his offspring; and this natural inclination to love involves a small range of desires (self-preservation, primitive subsistence, sex, etc. )
