19889 | People need society because the individual has too many needs [Plato] |
5133 | Man is by nature a social being [Aristotle] |
20842 | Rational animals begin uncorrupted, but externals and companions are bad influences [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius] |
23346 | A person is as naturally a part of a city as a foot is part of the body [Epictetus] |
19764 | Hobbes attributed to savages the passions which arise in a law-bound society [Hobbes, by Rousseau] |
2367 | In time of war the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short [Hobbes] |
19882 | We are not created for solitude, but are driven into society by our needs [Locke] |
19906 | All countries are in a mutual state of nature [Locke] |
19962 | Men do not desire to subjugate one another; domination is a complex and advanced idea [Montesquieu] |
19961 | Primitive people would be too vulnerable and timid to attack anyone, so peace would reign [Montesquieu] |
19755 | Most human ills are self-inflicted; the simple, solitary, regular natural life is good [Rousseau] |
19762 | Is language a pre-requisite for society, or might it emerge afterwards? [Rousseau] |
19763 | I doubt whether a savage person ever complains of life, or considers suicide [Rousseau] |
19765 | Savages avoid evil because they are calm, and never think of it (not because they know goodness) [Rousseau] |
19771 | Savage men quietly pursue desires, without the havoc of modern frenzied imagination [Rousseau] |
19778 | Leisure led to envy, inequality, vice and revenge, which we now see in savages [Rousseau] |
19779 | Primitive man was very gentle [Rousseau] |
19751 | Our two starting principles are concern for self-interest, and compassion for others [Rousseau] |
19791 | Natural mankind is too fragmented for states of peace, or of war and enmity [Rousseau] |
21075 | The state of nature always involves the threat of war [Kant] |
23275 | The state of nature is one of untamed brutality [Hegel] |
22673 | Wherever there is a small community, the association of the people is natural [Tocqueville] |
23844 | The most important human need is to have multiple roots [Weil] |
20489 | Human beings can never really flourish in a long-term state of nature [Wolff,J] |