vgodara
vgodara t1_jduvarb wrote
Reply to comment by naptiem in Vivek Venkataraman argues that political equality and proto-democracy were the most common form of political organisation in the "state of nature". These ideals preceded modern liberalism & statehood, and are arguably how humans have lived the majority of our evolution. by Ma3Ke4Li3
From what I read in college the argument was that when weapon for fight become easy to manufacture you will have more egalitarian societies because revolt is always around the corner. But if weapons can't be mass produced easily you will have authoritative state. However the the Philosopher in question was American so he might have been biased towards that particular idea
vgodara t1_j1d2yt7 wrote
Reply to Knowing the content of one’s own mind might seem straightforward but in fact it’s much more like mindreading other people by ADefiniteDescription
The whole field of yoga baised on this philosophy. Physical aspects of yoga are not the main objective. It's just considered necessary to have healthy body for healthy mind. The second stage of having clear understanding of your mind ( mostly emotional aspects) takes decade of practice. Only after that you reach the state where you can begin to have control over your emotions and instead of being slave to your environment you can make choose how you want to feel ( example being burning monk) . Some people claim (no empirical evidence) that fully trained yogi can put themselves into deep sleep ( hibernation) for multiple years.
vgodara t1_jdv7lg2 wrote
Reply to comment by 1nfernals in Vivek Venkataraman argues that political equality and proto-democracy were the most common form of political organisation in the "state of nature". These ideals preceded modern liberalism & statehood, and are arguably how humans have lived the majority of our evolution. by Ma3Ke4Li3
>Hunter gather societies
I was not talking about hunter gather. I am taking about full blown civilization with Cities.
>they were generally speaking more compassionate than we are today
This is very recent developments we trying to commercials every thing. From mentor to friendship every thing can be bought and sold. And on being generous they were only generous to in group members because they expected same kind of generosity in return. Which is commonly known as barter system.