PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Nature, Endangerment, Peremptory Norm
30 Oct 2017
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Human nature: all human beings have common characteristics with one another: all humans need to eat and sleep. The idea that human beings are possesses of certain innate psychological attitudes or moral capacities that influence how we relate to other human beings, as well as the rest of the natural and supernatural world. Famous for arguing that human beings are naturally inclined to attack and manipulate each other. If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their end, endeavour to destroy, or subdue one another. Life in war: continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Thomas hobbes: the misery of the natural condition of mankind. The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it.
