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The Role of Egotism in the Demise of Humanity

2023-12-04 11:50:59

When there is opportunity to rule humanity, mankind desires eternal power. Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar insists that "the history of mankind is a tragic result that everyone searches for themselves." Because people never fully satisfy their own propensity, simple desires are easily distorted to dangerous troubles. For example, the massacre of Jews by Adolf Hitler is thought to be Hitler's need for sovereignty over others considered to be one of the most moving chapters in history.

In the bloody incident of the British Civil War, Thomas Hobbes realized the chaotic state of mankind, which tends to be the greatest evil. The basic premise of Hobbes' humanity - equality, selfishness, and competition - has brought about universal warfare in mankind. In order to remove the anarchy, Hobbes has absolute sovereignty. People are willing to engage in social contracts with one another and give up their right to sovereignty. For Hobbes, there is only Almighty sovereignty or "Leviathan"

Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau have a completely different perspective on social contracts, primarily based on a fundamental view on human nature's natural state. These fundamental natural human views are based on two controversial speculations that humans are inherently superior, or that humans tend to be essentially egoist and permanent spectrally opposite I got an opinion on the aspect. Sense of security. Since he believes that they possess this property, Hobbes believes that it must have versatile sovereignty of fairly complete nature.

The cold wilderness is lonely. This is a typical naturalist who was unaware of warnings due to their own egoism and indifference to the power of nature and indifference to human suffering. Even though "He has seen the sun for several days", the temperature is below 50 ° C, but the person did not get "impressed" from the surrounding environment. The reason was said, "He has no imagination." When the temperature became 50 degrees or less, I warned that the elderly explorer would not travel alone, and thought that I would survive alone, I called the old man "reluctantly reluctant". But with his numbness he was not allowed to open the game and began training to save lives, he later frozen to death. Contrary to the ignorance of men's nature, his travel companion - a big local husky - is fully aware of the danger of temperature. The narrator explained: "Giant cold makes me feel depressed animals.

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