Do we really want to live in society?

Do we really live in society?

Have we ever questioned ourselves this query? If one hasn’t, it is something really interesting to do. First of all because we can have two different theories about human nature: Hobbes who sees man as awful creatures who are only full of themselves, and Rousseau who stands in the opposite idea..he sustains that human are kind hearted creatures who become corrupted by society.

Well… I have always wondered what it would be to live without society… To become some kind of anarchist (not that I want to). How could man live this way? I feel that it would be almost impossible to have order in such broad communities. We couldn’t be able to survive.

What about human? Are we naturally good or evil? when it comes to human nature, I do not support neither Rousseau nor Hobbes idea..well, men in their natural state have to survive..and when human find their selfs in this positions their natural instinct comes out.  I do not believe that acting due to our natural instinct can be classified as good or evil… Well, this instinct may cause actions that can be classified  as such…men will kill if they have to, but they will also feed their children for instance. So as a result, I do not share these authors opinions.

Another thing that I questioned was the fact that Rousseau explains that we renunciate to our freedom, not in a total way but in some degree, in order to celebrate this contract that will be used as the base were society will regulate power. Before all, I do know that it is a theory in order to explain society, and as a student of law I am a great admirer of Rousseau, but what I wish to point out is that fact that we, who are born in society when this one already exist, do not renunciate. Why do I support this? Because in order to be able to renunciate we have to have ‘will’. Will in law is composed by discernment, intention and freedom. So…as we are already born IN society, we are not free to choose if we want to live in it. As a result, we did not renunciate because we had no will due to the fact that we were not free. 

It may sound a little bit messed out, but in the law field it has total sense!