PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: List Of Domesticated Animals, Total War, Natural Selection
27 Feb 2017
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Hobbes, et al. have only succeeded in describing the natural state of mankind according to the civilized humans with which they are familiar. Only postulating what man in a state of nature would look like. Really need to try and understand what human nature is outside of political order (civilized society) 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. Contemporary example: uncontacted amazon tribe: first ever aerial. Major contract between what we take to be man in a state of nature and how the noble savage actually exists. Man in a state of nature is primitive, in an animal state, wholly unenlightened but this does not, contra hobbes, involve total war. It is not a state of all against all. Thus, man in a state of nature is free from need and in want of nothing a coercive state would provide.
