FYS 150 Life in the State of Nature
Life under a stable government is something most of us take for granted, but what would life be like without it? Would life be so bad that we would have no choice but to create one? Is the ‘state of nature’ so bad that any government is preferable to none? Or is the belief in the authority of even the best governments a moral illusion? These are among the foundational questions in moral and political philosophy, and we will investigate some possible answers through philosophical texts, literature, and movies.