POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Egocentrism, Human Nature
4 Mar 2013
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1: there is the rich and the poor, and the poor becomes dependent on the rich, and the rich compete against one another, political states are formed commonwealths. Incipient government where rules that need to be obeyed. Degrees of inequality occurs before government: first, the establishment of law and property- inequality between rich and poor. This: then, the government and the creation of majesty- creating offices, rulers and rule, then, the transformation of power- creating masters and slaves, finally, despotism. In the end, all private persons become equal again. They are all equally subject to the powers of the despot: the end is a mirror image of the original, where the end is corrupt and the original is pure. People who know how to live only in the opinion of others - people who lived in the middle period did not have to worry about others" opinions. But people today only love themselves if only others love them.
