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Ockham's Razor

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Is There a Need for Political Societies?

In the light of this poverty dispute, Ocham really ends up defending a kind of modified augustinian view. He certainly disagrees, i think, with aristotle and aquinas that political society is natural. And his view is certainly that if adam hadn't sinned, then there would have been no need for it. Why would there? Because nobody could just have used things without trespassing on the rights of others. But in order to protect people er after the fall, when people tend to get rather bad dispositions and desires and avarice,. is held to rule or govern their actions.

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