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State of nature, in political theory, the real or hypothetical condition of human beings before or without political association. The notion of a state of nature was an essential element of the social-contract theories of the 17th- and 18th-century philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
21 Νοε 2023 · According to Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), the state of nature is where there is no agreed way to enforce collective or individual well-being and protection. It is characterized by "war of...
14 Ιουλ 2021 · Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). 1. The State of Nature. Hobbes imagines what life would be like in the “state of nature,” a hypothetical world without governments. Hobbes thinks all humans are equal when it comes to matters of survival. Nobody is powerful enough to be immune to attack.
Hobbes’s state of nature thus emerged as the condition that any rational individual would wish to avoid. His successive images of anarchy reveal a consistent strategy aimed at rendering the natural condition of mankind a credible encapsulation of the perils of disobedience.
Hobbes depicts the natural condition of mankind--known as the state of nature--as inherently violent and awash with fear. The state of nature is the "war of every man against every man," in which people constantly seek to destroy one another.
1 Φεβ 2024 · The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes can lay claim to creating some of the most distinctive and memorable statements about the state of nature. For Hobbes, humans in the state of nature are concerned with one thing only, their self-preservation.
16 Μαΐ 2023 · Hobbes created the state of nature, the condition in which people live before the establishment of the civil state, as the civil state’s polar opposite. In its purest form the state of nature represents savagery, constant danger of violent death, and moral...
