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1. www.britannica.com › topic › state-of-natureState of nature | Definition, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau ...

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   Mar 28, 2024 · 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 English philosophers Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and John Locke (1632–1704) and the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78).

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   Feb 12, 2002 · 1. Major Political Writings. Hobbes wrote several versions of his political philosophy, including The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (also under the titles Human Nature and De Corpore Politico) published in 1650, De Cive (1642) published in English as Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society in 1651, the English Leviathan published in 1651, and its Latin revision in 1668.

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   Feb 1, 2024 · The State of Nature is an idea which became especially popular with certain philosophers during the Enlightenment, notably Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). It refers to a state of existence before humans joined together to make formal societies when they gave up certain individual rights ...

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   The pure state of nature, or "the natural condition of mankind", was described by the 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and his earlier work De Cive.

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   Learn about the life, times, and main ideas of Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher who laid the foundations of modern political thought. Explore his vision of the state of nature, the social contract, and the role of sovereign power in his Leviathan.

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   What is Hobbes's state of nature?

   • 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.

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   What did Thomas Hobbes say about nature?

   • 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.

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   What does Hobbes mean by natural condition?

   • The Natural Condition of Mankind The state of nature is “natural” in one specific sense only. For Hobbes political authority is artificial: in the “natural” condition human beings lack government, which is an authority created by men. What is Hobbes’s reasoning here?

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   How did Hobbes develop the way out of the state of nature?

   • From here, Hobbes developed the way out of the state of nature into political society and government by mutual contracts . According to Hobbes, the state of nature exists at all times among independent countries, over whom there is no law except for those same precepts or laws of nature ( Leviathan, Chapters XIII, XXX end).

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   In a striking chapter toward the end of the first part of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes described the natural condition of mankind as a war in which “every man is Enemy to every man,” and wherein uncertainty and vulnerability make for a life that is “solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.” 1 He was by no means the first to invoke the state of nature in this context.

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   Nov 27, 2023 · Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher who famously summarised his pessimistic view of human nature in his greatest work, Leviathan, published in 1651. Hobbes believed that the life of humanity in the state of nature is short and brutish, a situation that can be mitigated by people coming together and handing over some of their ...

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