Our Diseased State
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The great model for the utopians and revolution- aries of the nineteenth century and thereafter was Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract.
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Rousseau is one of the first to try to reach a synthesis of the excel- lence, virtue, and community sought by Plato, with the security, freedom, and material well- being offered by Bacon.
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Arguably, with the decline of political Marxism, Rousseau remains the great philosopher of the progressive Left.
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Passion as the Ultimate Guide..
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We learn that by nature we are only animals. Our goodness is not moral; it’s just that we are secure in our skins, good at being ourselves.
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The catch is that humans also have “perfectibility,” that is, what Aristotle called “speech and reason..”
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Perfectibility” in fact harms us. It creates the means to satisfy but even more to arouse desires, which in the end make us unhappy and driven.
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It makes it possible for us to become ever more self- conscious, and thus phony.
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It teaches us to cooperate with others for our own selfish purposes and in so doing to manipulate each other and ourselves by playing social roles.
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