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December 9, 2021Friedrich Nietzsche, rousseau

Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human

My chum and sometime collaborator has this new book out. Friedrich NietzscheJean-Jacques RousseauLiberalismPaul FrancoPolitical philosophy

October 9, 2017locke, rousseau

Liberty and Equality in Political Economy From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present

Stephen Hicks reviews Nick and Gordon’s latest: an incentive for me to begin reading it given that all three are some of the best conference discussants I’ve come across. The Lockeans ask, “How can we raise everyone up?” while the Rousseaueans ask, “If we can’t raise all of the poor up, how can we lower…

November 13, 2011ants, collaboration, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Fukuyama, hobbes, human nature, locke, rousseau, social cognition, sociobiology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy

E.O. Wilson

Here’s an article in this month’s Atlantic. Rejecting the views of classic political philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau that primitive humankind started out as a collection of scattered, unorganized individuals, Fukuyama writes: “Human sociability is not a historical or cultural acquisition, but something hardwired into human nature.” Nowhere is Wilson, who pioneered this view,…