SuspiciousRelation43 t1_j77zy0k wrote on February 4, 2023 at 7:50 PM

Reply to comment by ItisyouwhosaythatIam in There Are No Natural Rights (without Natural Law): Addressing what rights are, how we create rights, and where rights come from by contractualist

Unless they have anything else to elaborate on than the premise of dialectical materialism, I don’t see how that is useful. Obviously that’s what happens; humans are social, and ability to persuade others into allying with oneself is not entirely correlated with a genuine or altruistic reciprocation. That doesn’t affect the aim of social philosophy, which is attempting to understand the principles underlying those same dynamics.

ItisyouwhosaythatIam t1_j78o2hq wrote on February 4, 2023 at 10:45 PM

It seems to me the only principle underlying is that of self preservation. People have figured out that social groups prolong life for the individual - as long as they - despite what they must profess - continue to cover their own asses, first. It is the biggest lie around, that half or more aren't willing to put the good of the many ahead of their own interests, but they pretend that they do.