Tournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: EvaSin OL | Judge: Stephen Scopa
1~ It creates out ability to think and makes us agents – life outside language is deterministic, Pettit 09,
Phillip Pettit. Made With Words, Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics. 2009. http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt7rp73.3 LHPYA
This picture of the mental life with which nature furnishes human beings, according to
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to distinguish men from all other living creatures."(L 3.11).
And language causes infinite violence –
1~ Language gives rise to comparison which results in endless competition and violence. Pettit 2,
Phillip Pettit. Made With Words, Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics. 2009. http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt7rp73.3 LHPYA
Lacking the capacity to think in a classificatory way, other animals are insensitive to
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becomes a creature "whose joy consisteth in comparing himself with other men"
2~ Language is structurally negative and doesn’t refer to reality – if I say a saw an oak tree you know I didn’t see a car or person but you can’t visualize what I did see – since our rationality is based in language truth is created by individuals rather than extrinsically found but that creates infinite violence over meaning creation. Parrish:
Derrida`s Economy of Violence in Hobbes` Social Contract, Richard Parrish
For Hobbes truth is a function of logic and language, not of the relation
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regarding whether or not a specific situation fits a commonly-held definition.
Thus, morality requires an authority to enforce a universal moral theory and resolve conflict. Only an absolute sovereign can do this. Parrish 2:
Derrida`s Economy of Violence in Hobbes` Social Contract, Richard Parrish
"All of the foregoing pints to the conclusion that in the commonwealth the
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all directions" and fall inevitably into the violence of the natural condition."
Thus, the standard is consistency with the will of the sovereign. Prefer it on motivation – morality lacks authority over agents. Even if the aff defines the good it gives no way to obligate agents to actually be good. That hijacks the aff since defining good and denying the ability to enforce it the sovereign creates is contradictory.