I have received your letter and am pleased that you have given my works so much thought. However, I feel as though you might have missed the mark on a few things. I would like to just take a moment to explain myself and possibly enlighten you with the correct meaning of my argument. In your letter you state that my book is indicating that humans should go back to a stage of nascency but I rather believe that it is not only impossible to regress to that stage but rather that humans should have stopped progression when societies emerged. You also express the idea that I claim that it is because of thinkers and philosophers that our world is in a state of pandemonium. However, I rather am of the opinion that it is the maturation of the power of
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In fact, I deduce that it is not only impossible for humans to revert back to that state but we are actually not better off going back. I rather state that there is a different stage that humans should have stopped development at rather than continue the progress. This stage is the stage where both societies and inequalities emerged. It also happens to be in my mind, the middle between the nascent stage and the current state of man. As I stated in the book, this stage of development “must have been the happiest and most durable epoch” because men had become “less forbearing” and obtained “a middle position between the indolence of our primitive state and the petulant activity of our ecocentrism” (74). These quotations explain the state of man at this stage, in between laziness of our nascent stage and the overwhelming feelings of self-importance. This is the ideal stage because men are able to love emotionally and also think rationally. I also believe that it is impossible to go back to a state of nascency. Like I state in the book, “the statue of Glaucus, which time, sea, and …show more content…
You argue that the violence is caused by “insatiable greediness and the indomitable pride of men.” Although, I do believe that education has had a part in the developmentation of minds and therefore could be deemed responsible, I do not believe that it is to blame for problems in the world. In my book, I rather state that it is not the education of people but rather the cerebral development of man that is causing problems, specifically the power or will and perfectibility. I state in my book “that [man’s] perfectibility has enabled him to acquire, thus falls even lower than the animal itself” (53). This quotation shows that with concepts like perfectibility men are weak and susceptible to the enticements of society which causes them to morally descend lower than animals. Overall, I do not believe that the development of education is the cause of problems in the world but rather that the development of the mind to think about more than oneself and the development of inequality that has caused so many problems in the
In fact, I deduce that it is not only impossible for humans to revert back to that state but we are actually not better off going back. I rather state that there is a different stage that humans should have stopped development at rather than continue the progress. This stage is the stage where both societies and inequalities emerged. It also happens to be in my mind, the middle between the nascent stage and the current state of man. As I stated in the book, this stage of development “must have been the happiest and most durable epoch” because men had become “less forbearing” and obtained “a middle position between the indolence of our primitive state and the petulant activity of our ecocentrism” (74). These quotations explain the state of man at this stage, in between laziness of our nascent stage and the overwhelming feelings of self-importance. This is the ideal stage because men are able to love emotionally and also think rationally. I also believe that it is impossible to go back to a state of nascency. Like I state in the book, “the statue of Glaucus, which time, sea, and …show more content…
You argue that the violence is caused by “insatiable greediness and the indomitable pride of men.” Although, I do believe that education has had a part in the developmentation of minds and therefore could be deemed responsible, I do not believe that it is to blame for problems in the world. In my book, I rather state that it is not the education of people but rather the cerebral development of man that is causing problems, specifically the power or will and perfectibility. I state in my book “that [man’s] perfectibility has enabled him to acquire, thus falls even lower than the animal itself” (53). This quotation shows that with concepts like perfectibility men are weak and susceptible to the enticements of society which causes them to morally descend lower than animals. Overall, I do not believe that the development of education is the cause of problems in the world but rather that the development of the mind to think about more than oneself and the development of inequality that has caused so many problems in the