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To picture myself better I must create a complex idea consisting of the values I find most significant in myself, and those that I find more significant than my own in other people. This is evident by the copy thesis, to have an idea of how something can be better, I must have an impression from some source, and these are not present in me so I must find them else ware.
One is conceited when he views himself as the source of this idea of a more significant value. One reasons that because he frequently performs well in any event he is "good" at it. To create his idea of himself as a lesser, we apply the same method as above and he applies some idea of another person's value that is insignificant. He then reasons that he is better than that person. Because this idea is copied from our experience it is proper and infallible reasoning.
We generally regard people who are conceited as people who think they are better at all things, not just at specific facets of life. It would then seem that the conceited man would have to make a judgment concerning every aspect of someone else's life to make the comparison. This is 1) not possible and 2) decreases the chances that he is better than the other. It is at this point that competition arises in the state of nature. Competition, in the natural sense, is the submission to an argument of who is better. No competition could reveal someone to be wholly better than another, so instead of aiming at truth it acts as an ad hominem fallacy. Full conceitedness can never be reasoned and justified, but "betterness" can universally accented to by simply destroying counterpoints.
Within the state of nature, all compete to show who is greater, but there exists no standard of comparison. It is at this point that Human Audacity arises. That all humans are a better species than any other is universally assented to. Now there is an available groundwork for comparison and a general consensus so that we can persist in our superiority. If we held no defensible view of what was better that anything else we would not be able to survive. We are competitive animals rather than political, but such still gives rise to politics as an organized forum to show better ideas. It is a natural human faculty to take credit where credit is due even if they choose not to accept it.
Thus, we see that human politics arose from the human faculty to "weigh". Human Audacity, the view that we are better than animals, is the cause of what ACTUALLY makes us better than animals, for clearly the same argument arises that one cannot fully take into account all the skills of one species and compare them to all the skills of another. This competition is the easiest one to win because the one you are arguing against has no voice.
One is conceited when he views himself as the source of this idea of a more significant value. One reasons that because he frequently performs well in any event he is "good" at it. To create his idea of himself as a lesser, we apply the same method as above and he applies some idea of another person's value that is insignificant. He then reasons that he is better than that person. Because this idea is copied from our experience it is proper and infallible reasoning.
We generally regard people who are conceited as people who think they are better at all things, not just at specific facets of life. It would then seem that the conceited man would have to make a judgment concerning every aspect of someone else's life to make the comparison. This is 1) not possible and 2) decreases the chances that he is better than the other. It is at this point that competition arises in the state of nature. Competition, in the natural sense, is the submission to an argument of who is better. No competition could reveal someone to be wholly better than another, so instead of aiming at truth it acts as an ad hominem fallacy. Full conceitedness can never be reasoned and justified, but "betterness" can universally accented to by simply destroying counterpoints.
Within the state of nature, all compete to show who is greater, but there exists no standard of comparison. It is at this point that Human Audacity arises. That all humans are a better species than any other is universally assented to. Now there is an available groundwork for comparison and a general consensus so that we can persist in our superiority. If we held no defensible view of what was better that anything else we would not be able to survive. We are competitive animals rather than political, but such still gives rise to politics as an organized forum to show better ideas. It is a natural human faculty to take credit where credit is due even if they choose not to accept it.
Thus, we see that human politics arose from the human faculty to "weigh". Human Audacity, the view that we are better than animals, is the cause of what ACTUALLY makes us better than animals, for clearly the same argument arises that one cannot fully take into account all the skills of one species and compare them to all the skills of another. This competition is the easiest one to win because the one you are arguing against has no voice.
A short essay on the origin of society. Essentially the claim is that all society rises out of man's desire to compete with one another. To compete with one another, and also to live and preserve one's status as being better than another, we must have a standard to agree on. It is accepted then that all Human's are better than non-human animals. It is upon this claim, Human Audacity, that society is created.
It then follows that Human Audacity is really what makes us better than animals because it allows us to do the things they cannot.
Obviously, some of the points are not fully argued. This may be the subject of my thesis paper so I still have 2 years.
It then follows that Human Audacity is really what makes us better than animals because it allows us to do the things they cannot.
Obviously, some of the points are not fully argued. This may be the subject of my thesis paper so I still have 2 years.
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