Are Human's Essentially Estranged?

Are Human Beings Essentially Estranged?
Estrangement can take on many meanings in life. The ideas of conflict, war, hatred, and disunity are all seen as forms of estrangement. (Lecture Notes) Although we know that humans can be estranged, the question is are humans essentially estranged, or is estrangement something that occurs as a result of an outside source? According to the founder of political science, Aristotle, human beings are essentially united. Aristotle believed that humans are all part of a greater city. If a person did not belong to that city, or isolated himself from the city, they must then be some type of beast or god. (Tinder 28) George Orwell also displays how estrangement is something that is learned or forced upon a person in the book “1984”. Orwell’s ideas tie together the fact that politics create many barriers that we see in society between our different social classes. St. Augustine also follows up the argument that God had no intentions of h...