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    Society is structured by nature in an organic and hierarc... — Carmelics
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    Society is structured by nature in an organic and hierarchical fashion.

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    • 1.Individual members of society have particular innate skills and natural dispositions.
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    • 2.These innate skills and dispositions correspond to particular trades and professions.
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    • 3.The natural assignment of roles based on innate character produces an organic, hierarchical social structure.
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    • 1.Social hierarchies are historically contingent products of power, coercion, and accident rather than expressions of natural order.
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    • 2.Rousseau demonstrated that inequality originates in property and convention, not in nature's distribution of innate capacities.
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    • 3.If hierarchy were natural, we would not observe the radical variation in social structures across human societies and historical periods.
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    • 1.The inference from innate difference to hierarchical rank commits a naturalistic fallacy: variation in capacity does not entail superiority of persons.
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    • 2.Rawls's veil of ignorance argument shows that rational agents would not consent to social structures premised on morally arbitrary natural endowments.
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    • 3.Functional differentiation of roles is compatible with horizontal coordination among equals, making hierarchy an addition to, not a consequence of, organic social structure.
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    At this point, the second aspect mentioned above, i.e., the “innate character that is particular to each [individual] and to each group” must be further elucidated (cf. the first quote in this section). Human beings, as noted before, have the same relationship to society as organs to the body. Owing to their particular “innate character” or specific natural disposition, they hold a particular natural place within the ‘organism society’, with a specific ergon they ought to perform, so that the en
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    The inference from innate difference to hierarchical rank commits a naturalistic...
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