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    Humans cannot subsist alone and therefore require a socia... — Carmelics
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    Humans cannot subsist alone and therefore require a social order.

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    • Humans cannot survive or thrive in isolation.
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    • 1.Rousseau's 'natural man' in Discourse on Inequality was self-sufficient, solitary, and untroubled before social institutions corrupted him.
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    • 2.If the pre-social human condition was one of independence and contentment, then society is a contingent invention, not a biological necessity.
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    • 1.Thoreau's Walden experiment demonstrates that a reflective individual can meet material needs through deliberate withdrawal from social dependency.
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    • 2.If subsistence is achievable in structured solitude, the inference from biological need to required social order commits a non-sequitur by conflating minimal survival with complex political organization.
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    According to Hume, Hobbes’ “deduction of morals from self-love” begins with our realization that we cannot subsist alone. A social order provides security, peace, and mutual protection, conditions that allow us to promote our own interests better than if we lived alone. Our own good is thus bound up with the maintenance of society. Although Hume agrees with Hobbes up to this point, he rejects his explanation that we approve of justice, benevolence, and humanity because they promote our own happi
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