In the Jaws of Human Nature – Gordon Dakota Arnold

In the Jaws of Human Nature – Gordon Dakota Arnold

One of the perennial questions of political philosophy is the relationship between man and nature. Is nature fundamentally hostile to life, or does it—instead—make all we cherish worthwhile? For all their disagreements, thinkers as different as Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all saw man’s relationship with nature as a fundamental, perhaps the fundamental, problem of politics. But despite the ever-present character of this pr…