PHILOS 1B03 Midterm: Human Nature Rousseau and Marx

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Rousseau & marx - on human nature: disagreed to hobbes and locke, they only succeed in describing humans in a civilized fashion vs a barbaric fashion, man in a state of nature: the noble savage. We know what we want, and learn to achieve that. Moral = our desires = preservation: not yet enlightened, not in a state of war. Knowledge is just what our desires want. If you are a savage - you have limited desires. Caring most for his own preservation, secures the savage this desire without entering into conflict with others. We do not want mathematics or art, since we don"t knew about them (ignorant) Cultural bias is here in each their writings. Major contrast between what we take from man of state in nature and the savage. Man in a state of nature is primitive, in an animal state, wholly unenlightened.