In this paper, I set out to prove that once we correctly identify human nature and organize our world according to the principle of cooperation, we can arrive at a world of social harmony. We can then engage in conscious human evolution, aiming at moral and intellectual perfection. Hence, we can arrive at evolutionity, a new evolutionary epoch which would replace the current conflicting and disharmonious times of postmodernity. The current world disharmony, which can be observed especially in the field of politics and economics, is largely related to the erroneous modern Western philosophical assertions identifying the human being with an individual moved by desires and the will to power, and the phenomenon of life in an endless conflict. An additional influence is provided by the flawed postmodernist conceptions of culture and family. These errors have enormous implications with regard to how we picture the world in which we live. They hinder our evolutionary capacities. I want to show that cooperation is an integral part of human nature, and that the society organized according to the requirements of nature is a truly happy society. I support my argument by statements from Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus.
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Moral Perfection, Social Harmony, Social Diversity, Cooperation, Human Nature, Human Evolution, Evolutionity, Happiness, Civilization
| [1] | W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus: New Directions for the Future Development of Humankind, New York: Routledge, 2017. |
| [2] | Onkar Prasad, “Sound as Harmony” in ed. S. C. Malik, Dhivani: Nature and Culture of Sound, New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 1999, pp. 87-90. |
| [3] | Inner purity, manifested in gentleness, peace, love and joy, can be considered as the highest moral quality. It is the original characteristics of the human soul, as mentioned by Plato in the dialogue Phaedrus. It is what we have lost and to what we can come back. It signifies the inner divinity that according to Vedanta philosophers constitutes our forgotten identity that can be rediscovered by self-reflection and brought again to enfoldment. See Plato, Phaedrus, tr. B. Jowett, Teddington, Middlesex: The Echo Library 2006. |
| [4] | Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, New York: Knopf, 1956, p. 25. |
| [5] | See Christopher Layne, “Kant or Cant: The Myth of Democratic Peace,” International Security, 19 (2) 1994. |
| [6] | Neorealists, such as Kenneth Waltz, do not speak directly about human nature, but it is implied in their notion of an egoistic state that is motivated by its security interests, dominance and so on. See Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics, Long Grove: Ill.: Waveland, 2010. |
| [7] | W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, On the History of Political Philosophy, New York: Routledge 2016, pp. 211-222. |
| [8] | One of the most influential thinkers, whose ideas contributed to the formation of the twentieth century theory of realism in international relations, was Hans Morgenthau, for whom all politics was a struggle for power. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations, p. 25. |
| [9] | Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan [1651] (London: Dent 1973): XI 2 (chapter, paragraph no). |
| [10] | See Korab-Karpowicz, On the History of Political Philosophy, pp. 168-169. |
| [11] | Aristotle, The Politics [c 335 BCE], ed. K. J. Arrow (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962), p. 29. |
| [12] | Hobbes, Leviathan, XIII 13. |
| [13] | Someone can argue that we cannot find any social groups that can be regarded as nobility, and that all people pursue always only their egoistic interests. However, cases from history can provide us with evidence to the contrary. We can find many examples of virtuous rulers, upholders of righteousness, who devoted their lives to the service of the well-being of people. See V. R. Mehta, Foundations of Indian Political Thought (From Manu to the Present Day), New Delhi: Manohar 1992. |
| [14] | W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, “The Clash of Epochs: Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Evolutionity,” Perspectives on Political Science 48.3 (2019), 170-182. |
| [15] | Swami Sivananda, Jnana Yoga, Shivanandanagar: Divine Life Society, 2007, pp. 45-74. |
| [16] | Ludwing Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1918], London: Routledge, 1974, passages 1; 2.063. |
| [17] | Hobbes, Leviathan, XI 1. |
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