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[[David Brin/The Ultimate Goal|In Part II]], we covered a short list of unconventional questions designed to avoid the stereotyped totems of typical political argument, and instead dive much deeper, to explore <b>root attitudes.</b> There we discussed how the old tussle between Hobbes, Rousseau and Locke continues to our day. [[Neoconservative]]s, in appealing for a return to aristocratic rule, appeal to Hobbesean images of sinful human nature needing continuous control by elites. Libertarians and classical Marxists appear to believe – as Rousseau did – in a natural state of human freedom that awaits only the removal of artificial impediments, like the state. A third perspective holds to the notion of Locke, that gradual maturation may take place with increasing wealth and education, gradually evolving from a society of <b>implicit social contracts</b> to one where fully sovereign individuals negotiate <b>explicit</b> contracts with society.</small></p> | [[David Brin/The Ultimate Goal|In Part II]], we covered a short list of unconventional questions designed to avoid the stereotyped totems of typical political argument, and instead dive much deeper, to explore <b>root attitudes.</b> There we discussed how the old tussle between Hobbes, Rousseau and Locke continues to our day. [[Neoconservative]]s, in appealing for a return to aristocratic rule, appeal to Hobbesean images of sinful human nature needing continuous control by elites. Libertarians and classical Marxists appear to believe – as Rousseau did – in a natural state of human freedom that awaits only the removal of artificial impediments, like the state. A third perspective holds to the notion of Locke, that gradual maturation may take place with increasing wealth and education, gradually evolving from a society of <b>implicit social contracts</b> to one where fully sovereign individuals negotiate <b>explicit</b> contracts with society.</small></p> | ||