Purpose Of Society

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What is the purpose of society?

What is the purpose of government?

  • Monopoly on violence?
  • Authority on truth?
  • Arbiter of disputes?
  • Backer of economy?

How did society arise?

These are some questions I think about while reading this article.

When analyzing society, I believe that the first place to look in is what life would be like without it. For example, what would be the purpose for any two members of a species entering into a relationship, a partnership? Between two or more entering into a society?

I would submit that the only possible reason (from a darwinian perspective), is that it was mutually beneficial for each member, and more specifically, the ability for the genes to reproduce 1. So, thinking in this way, in what ways does this type of partnership offer?

These are some I can think of quickly:

  • first
  • second
  • third

  1. for more info on why I say genes and not members, I recommend reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. ↩

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