Response #2

In response to this.

I would disagree with your argument that human beings are naturally inclined towards freedom. It is not part of the human instinct to live in a world where anything is possible. I agree with Hobbes when is comes to a subject such as this. Hobbes argues that in a state of nature (a state of freedom), people are inevitably going to go for the throats of others. In order to protect ourselves, or as you mention the human instinct for self-preservation, we form a social contract that limits what is possible. Maybe through rhetoric we are consciously inclined towards the ideal of absolute freedom, but I believe the instinctually human beings do not gravitate towards freedom, but instead create limits. I would also disagree with the idea that individual interest is generated by the instinctual self. I believe that individual interest is generated not by instinct, but instead by conscious thinking. Instinct generates the universal interests because instinctually all humans are the same. Every human searches for food when they are hungry, an action that is instinctual and universal.