06-03-2019, 12:16 PM
Quote:You did not come into this world to lean on others, to lean on ideas, to lean on possessions or to lean on preconceived ethics.
You came into this world a perfect creature and that perfection was rapidly overlaid by a complex system of intellectual limitations which were placed upon you by others. You then carefully continued the work of your parents, believed what they told you in good faith, and for your lifetime have been trying in good faith to live according to the precepts of people and ideas and ethics and ways of being that have been taught to you.
https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/i...927_1.aspx
I can't agree with this. What makes us human? It's other humans, culture, tradition, socialization ... Without this we would be uncivilized. We know of examples of humans who grew up in wilderness ...
Quote:The belief that children have an intrinsically unsullied spirit, damaged only by culture and society, is derived in no small part from the eighteenth-century Genevan French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau was a fervent believer in the corrupting influence of human society and private ownership alike. He claimed that nothing was so gentle and wonderful as man in his pre-civilized state. At precisely the same time, noting his inability as a father, he abandoned five of his children to the tender and fatal mercies of the orphanages of the time.
(J. Peterson: 12 Rules)