PHILOS 2G03 Lecture Notes - Thomas Hobbes, Henry David Thoreau, Habituation
20 Sep 2012
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Man was born free and is everywhere in chains rousseau. Thoreau: a duty to disobey an unjust society/law/rule. Discourse on inequality: response to an essay question for a contest, answering the posed question, He is criticizing the advancement of science. Luxury as leading to vice contradiction, was trying to live in voluntary poverty and was uncomfortable with the fame for his opera, becoming a philosopher. Image as a romantic rebel discourse on inequality known as his best work. Largely speculating on man in his natural state society is an invention, trying to explain human nature by stripping away everything, civilization etc. , that has made humanity what it has become. It is the knowledge that they are free that mentally renders the man of nature mentally superior: the invention of society: Freedom then, is a two edged sword; we can choose our lives, but can also entail perfectibility" the faculty of self-perfection", which is absent in animals.
