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22 wrz 2024 · Rousseau believed that as society developed, it gradually corrupted this natural goodness. The introduction of private property, social hierarchies, and artificial wants and needs slowly but surely turned humans from noble savages into, well, just savages.
4 wrz 2024 · We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
18 lut 2024 · Aristotle's quote "Man is by nature a political animal" is a profound reflection on human nature and the inherent sociable and communal tendencies that define us as a species. Essentially, Aristotle is asserting that humans are naturally inclined towards living in communities, forming social structures, and engaging in political life.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
23 gru 2021 · Human innocence and social inequality. The fundamental problem behind social inequality, for Rousseau, is not nature or people, but social institutions. Society corrupts the pure individual. We are not inherently constrained by nature; instead, we are limited and corrupted by social arrangements.
Once again, Aldo Leopold presents a thought-provoking perspective on the nature of social animals and their evolution. This quote suggests that nonconformity, or the ability to deviate from societal norms, is the pinnacle of social development.
25 maj 2021 · A century before Rachel Carson observed that because “our origins are of the earth… there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,” Thoreau adds: We can never have enough of Nature.
