Monday, May 14, 2012
What is the most just social structure?
Applying Plato's definition, a just
world is each performing his proper function. Defining human nature
correctly and then finding a social structure which best allows the
performance of real human nature is the task.
Human nature is a multi-level selection
process between individual, kin and group selection, which helps
explain the conflicted nature of human beings. Group selection sets
the ethics in competition with other groups and their ethics, with
the best bonded groups having the advantage over the less bonded
people.
A world of thousands of small states or
ethnostates, protected by a light federalism, seems to be the most
just social structure because it allows each to perform his proper
function in harmony with human nature. Perhaps Plato would agree.
If we then expand Plato's definition
and say a just world is each performing his proper function with the
sacred function defined as our evolution to Godhood, a world of many
small states also harmonizes with this sacred religious function,
since this sort of variety and, ideally, ordered-evolution, best
enhances evolution.
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