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Almost like it was a sustainable, albeit very different, way of living?
Nasty, brutish and short, I believe
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As it is for most other animals on this planet, and still is for a chunk of humanity living in what we call "the developing world"?
I guess back then folks didn't hope/expect to retire in comfort and live to 90+, so didn't suffer fomo about it either.
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Hobbes' position is not based on a scientific or historically-informed view of early history - it's a fabricated history developed for the polemic purpose of his argument in Leviathan. The same is true of Rousseau's.
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GeneralStrike
Almost like it was a sustainable, albeit very different, way of living?
Only one and a bit of those 4 measures are a positive kind of special though?
Agreed.