I’ve started studying for the semester, so my brain is in fine form at the moment. As i’m doing the two majors, Philosophy and Anthropology, there is something about the two that are in conflict with each other that I am trying to reconcile.
On the one hand, you have Anthropology, the study of mankind. We are taught that humans are social beings. If this is the case, why do people such as Hume and Sartre believe respectively that we are in a state of nature that is on the brink of war and that hell is other people? Is it that our human nature yearns to be social with others, but this then brings up conflicts that ruin these social relationships? Are we really social beings? Or is this just a pipe dream?
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