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=== Major themes === | === Major themes === | ||
====Origins of the state==== | |||
The central premise of organicism relates to the origins of the State. Unlike in {{wp|social contract}} theory, which contends the State is a construct based on consent from individuals in the state of nature, organicism contends that humans are social animals and, from their beginning, humans were created to have social relationships with other humans. Organicist philosophers argue that society is merely the sum of social relationships, and that consequently, man's place is within society. Emerging from this, it is argued society and the State are essentially the same thing; in the words of Duinsha, it indicates that "man's relation to the other - in the family, in the tribe, and in the State - are in no way ''different in kind'' and are merely different arrangements of the same phenomenon". Organicists say that this indicates that man cannot consent (either explicitly or otherwise) to be subject to a state because they also cannot, for example, not consent to be a member of a family. Organicists are clear that this is not to say that individuals "cannot disapprove or otherwise not attempt to disassociate" with the State just as they disassociate from families, but nonetheless "they are still subject to them". Most proponents of organicists express this in the shorthand expression that "society and the State are indistinguishable". | |||
Most early organicists developed this theory, best exemplified in Lucius Duinsha's "''Contra the Social Contractors''" (1768), based on the {{wp|Book of Genesis}}, citing that Adam and Eve were created together. While many humanists and liberals rejected the organicist conception of human relationships, a "second wave" of thinkers were bolstered by the advent of {{wp|Evolution|evolution}} and scientific approaches to the development of human relations. | |||
====Religion as the practice of the whole==== | ====Religion as the practice of the whole==== | ||