Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans Naturally Good?
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Do We Need Hierarchy?
Thomas hobbs, riht was a famous british philosopher. He argued that when we were still nomadican togetherers, in the so called state of nature, as philosophers called it, we lived pretty horrible lives. When we gave up our liberty and exchanged our liberty for freedom, we basically appointed a very powerful leader that hobs call a leviathan. And am i guess the basic message here is that, because we cannot trust each other, we need hierarchy, right? We need people at the top who are in control, because otherwie, we'll turn into savages. Now, rousseau famously made the opposite argument. He said, no
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