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Ideas for 'Protagoras', 'The Meditations (To Himself)' and 'The Really Hard Problem'

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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

3065	Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius]
	Full Idea: We are made for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. To act against one another, then, is contrary to nature.
	From: Marcus Aurelius (The Meditations (To Himself) [c.170], 2.1)

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

21831	Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan]
	Full Idea: What Marx called 'alienation' is the widespread condition of not being able to discover what one wants, or not being remotely positioned to achieve.
	From: Owen Flanagan (The Really Hard Problem [2007], 2 'Expanding')
	A reaction: I took alienation to concern people's relationship to the means of production in their trade. On Flanagan's definition I would expect almost everyone aged under 20 to count as alienated.