ECH 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thomas Hobbes, Sadomasochism, Ultimate Human
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Dumbest thing you can say about politics is its just human nature . You can explain everything as being human nature . Human nature just becomes an excuse for bad decisions. Emphasizes the difference between the words human and nature. Human beings are no different than animals. Most of the time nature is moderately peaceful and unreflective if humans were like nature, romantic relationships would simply be about mating. What makes us human is completely the opposite of nature what makes us human is actually not to have a nature. Humans are self-creative and are able to be different. Human beings are the only animals who actually have a history. Something that changes, we change through time. Rousseau argues that our dynamics make it possible to have history. History is not something that just happens, there are forces and influences that create history relationship between me and i.