- People say there are five stages of grave: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. I even haven't pass anger....
From An introduction to Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff
- Thomas Hobbes's greatest work, leviathan (published in 1651), pursues a theme that had obsessed him for more than twenty years: nothing could be worse than life without the protection of state
- A state of nature, a state of war, a state of constant fear and danger of a violent death.
- Individual rationality and Collective rationality (prisoners' dilemma)
- ....conservation of motion....human beings as always searching for something, never at rest
- The law of Nature, for John Locke, is simply the idea that mankind is to be preserved as much as possible. So, Locke argues, we have a clear duty not to harm others in the state of nature and we even have a duty to help them if we can do so with out damage to ourselves.
- The Philosophers, who have inquired into the foundations of society, have all felt the necessity of going back to a state of nature; but not one of them has got there....Every one of them, in short, constantly dwelling on wants, avidity, oppression, desires, and pride, has transferred to the state of nature ideas which were acquired in society; so that, in speaking of the savage, they described the social man. ----By Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
- The trouble is that Rousseau has given natural man two drives -- self-preservation and compassion -- and it seems more than possible that the two could come into conflict.
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