Sartre values Hobbes...so should you!
In Boethius’ translation, a work encompassing the Eve and metaphysical viewpoint, it is indicated that God created us with a nature to obey him.
He [God]
The first life bids, that needs must be,
And live on for a time; that done
He calls it back, merely to shun
The mischief, which his creature might
Run into by a further flight.
A grain of this bright love each thing
Had given at first by their great King;
And from their great preserver part,
As blood let out forsakes the heart
And perisheth; but what returns
With fresh and brighter spirits burns.
The Metaphysical viewpoint would take that stance that human beings have a natural essence that was instilled in us by God. Thus, we naturally have a capacity for Loving one another, created in us at birth by God. Moreover, we constantly yearn for this. I was reading some Sartre this fine morning (no, not for fun), and I found some of the things he said highly relevant for our own polemic.
Sartre believes that there is no given human nature common to everyone because there is no God to give all humans this essential quality. Only after we exist on earth, can any essence that we call human develop. Each of us must develop, define and decide our own nature through engagement with ourselves, with society and with the natural world. Thus, because each person’s own human nature is dependent upon that person, we are solely responsible because what we do is dependent upon our own choices. Essentially, you have nobody to blame but yourself. But, because we share a common human condition, like we all live together, live in human society and are faced daily with the same sorts of decisions, in this, we are members of a community. Choices that we make, about what we feel is valuable and important (despite what some authority is telling us how to behave) we will see as values others should choose as well. Our choices affect others, and thus in some way we become responsible for others as well as ourselves, and so we must accept some responsibility for others doing as we do.
This follows an extremely Hobbsian line of thought. Sartre rejects that we are born with any innate human nature. Thus, he would reject any Metaphysical argument that we are born with Love in our hearts.
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