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"We might label this the Hobbesean fallacy: the idea that human beings were primordially individualistic and that they entered into society at a later stage in their development only as a result of a rational calculation that social cooperation was the best way for them to achieve their individual ends. This premise of primordial individualism underpins the understanding of rights contained in the American Declaration of lndependence and thus of the democratic political community that springs from it. [...]
Everything that modern biology and anthropology tell us about the state of nature suggests the opposite: there was never a period in human evolution when human beings existed as isolated individuals..."
~ Fukuyama, Francis: The Origins of Political Order, Profile Books 2011, pp. 29-30
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