Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Hobbes or, more recently, Bernard Mandeville, that humans were not naturally vested with any sociable propensities or affections in what was sometimes called the ‘ state of nature. ’ This raised a set of further questions, prompted in part …
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