Recognition vs. Violation: The Three Anarchisms

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state of nature, and consent violation & recognition…

1. The noble (social) savage who would live in peace if their group was left alone. (They are untested by conflict. They have no tools for conflict resolution. Their state protects them from the overly individualistic.)

2. The vicious (individualistic) savage who wants to control everything and fights everybody to the death for it who does not submit. (They have no real love. They miss the point. Their state protects them from the overly collectivistic.)

3. We have both in us — every individual is of equal importance and cannot develop in isolation — and must cooperate to resolve conflict in a way that recognizes rather than violates each other’s consent structures. Their state is one of self-rule.

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Hobbes thought we tend toward individuation (a kind of war/conflict, but not between classes, as with Marx) that needs to be tamed by the state in order to survive together (as a group). Rousseau thought we tend toward cooperation (as simple barbarians, not as law-followers) that needs to be tamed by the state in order to survive as an individual. Locke thought we naturally follow laws of nature to maintain a natural cooperation… & that it is unnatural to violate that. Kant (& Socrates… if Th…