The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of the Social Order

1999 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. John Ikenberry ◽  
Francis Fukuyama
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals “Leviathan”, or an essay on the doctrine of the state by T. Hobbes

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Vadym Nikolenko
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Life Support ◽  
The State ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Philosopher ◽  
Legitimate State

The study focuses on individual episodes of the biography, the most notable ideas and main socio-political views of the outstanding English scientist, social philosopher, theorist of the origin of the state – T. Hobbes. On the basis of the classic work “Leviathan”, his backbone thoughts on the processes of state building, the development of a balanced normative and legislative system and specific motives for striving for power are highlighted. In particular, attention is focused on the search by the researcher of the optimal balance between freedom and the duties of a citizen. The aspiration of the classic to a comprehensive study of the most effective mechanism, optimal forms of public administration, primarily for the establishment of stable social order and safety, is noted. The scientist emphasized that an authoritative, sovereign, legitimate state is able to effective cope with the tasks set. In which those in power are obliged to be guided by norms of morality and law. Characterized, according to the researcher, the socio-psychological traits of both average citizens and sovereigns for the full life support of the country.Highlighted his heuristic principles of anthropomorphism, which more metaphorically, expressively detail the likely destructive diseases of the state, among which he considered the lack of frugality and the processes of oligarchization of the socio-political system to be especially unsafe. Scientists emphasized the absolute rejection of corruption, lack of social justice, abuse of power. Thus, the advantages and disadvantages of various forms of government were highlighted, in particular, monarchical, aristocratic, democratic. The scientists himself was an active supporter of absolute monarchy and the unshakable authority of the state. At the same time, he focused not so much on the duties of citizens to the state, as on the duties of state representatives to their citizens, the implementation of which can state structure effective, authoritative and legitimate. At the same time, the contribution of T. Hobbes to the development of the philosophy of law is highlighted. In general, it was emphasized that the English scientist comprehensively substantiated his own thought about the immutability of human nature in the form of manifestations of selfishness, individualism, insatiable appetites, unrestrained passions, and the desire for social change. According to the philosopher, only a just, sovereign, authoritative state is capable of curbing the negative manifestations of human nature. In addition, attention focused on the state-forming nature of his philosophy and the scientist’s significant contribution to the development of the theory of the social contract or the contractual origin of the state is highlighted.

Human nature and the social order.

2011 ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Robert E. L. Faris
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Social

Politics and the Social Order in the Work of John O'Hara

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-257
Author(s):  
Lee Sigelman
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gore Vidal ◽  
Political Understanding

Classic works of fiction almost always raise “penetrating questions about the foundations and effects of the political regime, i.e. human nature and its implications for society.” But popular fiction, too, can be an instrument of social and political understanding. As Gore Vidal has argued:Writers of fiction, even more than systematic philosophers, tend to reveal unconscious presuppositions. One might even say that those writers who are the most popular are the ones who share the largest number of common assumptions with their audience, subliminally reflecting prejudices and aspirations so obvious that they are never stated and, never stated, never precisely understood or even recognized. John O'Hara is an excellent example of this kind of writer.

scholarly journals Human Nature and the Social Order

1941 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 448
Author(s):  
Kimball Young ◽  
E. L. Thorndike
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Social

Markets, Knowledge and Human Nature: Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi and Twentieth-century Debates on Modern Social Order

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ola Innset
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Karl Polanyi ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
Great Transformation ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
Friedrich Hayek

The article reads the works of Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) and Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) in the light of their political commitments to neoliberalism and socialism respectively. It argues that both thinkers were inspired to explain history and recent events in line with these commitments in their 1944 publications, The Road to Serfdom and The Great Transformation. Furthermore, they both developed their most significant insights by attempting to counter perceived challenges from political projects to which they were opposed. Polanyi spent much of his life trying to disprove a liberal attack on socialism as out of touch with the realities of human nature, whereas it was in debates with socialists that Hayek developed a new theory of the epistemological functioning of markets, which then became foundational for the neoliberal project. Taking into account the high-stakes politics of Vienna in the interwar years is crucial for fully understanding the social theory of these two thinkers.

scholarly journals Human Nature and the Social Order.

1903 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-331
Author(s):  
J. H. Tufts
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Social
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