PHIL 012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Hobbes, Civil Society, Nature One
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**for next class: summarize book 3, part 2, section 12. Rousseau, discourse on the origin of inequality part 2. Part one review: description of what primitive man is like, flattering description, message/goal of part one: to show that hobbes is wrong, message/goal of second part: inequality has it"s origin in private property. Pride: begins when man is in society with one another, recognition of different levels of merit. Vengefulness: once you have a feel for self merit, you develop an ego, desire for revenge is only possible when humans develop egos, b. When you live around other people, it becomes noticeable that some people are better at some things than others: ex: dancing around a camp fire some people can do it better. Civil society has a way of magnifying differences between people and making them a bigger deal than they originally were: c. beginning of softness.
