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Philosophize This!
The podcast mentioned Rousseau's work, focusing on his idea of the state of nature as a positive state before the corruption of civilization and the introduction of private property.
While government and laws take care of the security and well-being of men in groups, the sciences, letters, and the arts, less despotic and perhaps more powerful, spread garlands of flowers over the i...
— Episode: Episode #045 ... Rousseau Government pt....
Episode: Episode #045 ... Rousseau Government pt. 1
The podcast mentioned Rousseau's work, focusing on his idea of the state of nature as a positive state before the corruption of civilization and the introduction of private property.
While government and laws take care of the security and well-being of men in groups, the sciences, letters, and the arts, less despotic and perhaps more powerful, spread garlands of flowers over the iron chains which weigh men down, snuffing out in them the feeling of the original liberty for which they appear to have been born, and make them love their slavery by turning them into what are called civilized people.
Beware of listening to this imposter. You are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all and the earth itself to nobody. But there is great probability that things had then already come to such a pitch, that they could no longer continue as they were. For the idea of property depends on many prior ideas which could only be acquired successfully and could not have been formed all at once in the human mind.
the fruits of the earth belong to us all and the earth itself to nobody