Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… has argued, the sense of trauma caused by the deprivation of Edinburgh’s status as the capital of an independent state stimulated new ways of thinking about patriotism, citizenship, and progress that had deep implications for both … 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 by the natural law theorist Samuel Pufendorf ’s insistence that human need ( indigentia ) supplied a basis for society prior to the formal establishment of states. I f humans were not naturally sociable, how had they become so? And what was the significance of sociability to …
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