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     • For Hobbes, the state of nature is characterized by the “war of every man against every man,” a constant and violent condition of competition in which each individual has a natural right to everything, regardless of the interests of others.
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   What is a state of nature?

   • The state of nature is a real or imagined state of human existence before people got together and formed a social contract to live in a political society. It is often used as a philosophical device to examine which rights people should have or not have in society. What is the difference between Hobbes' state of nature and Locke's state of nature?

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   What is a state of nature in political theory?

   • 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.

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   What is the state of nature according to Hobbes?

   • For Hobbes, the state of nature is characterized by the “war of every man against every man,” a constant and violent condition of competition in which each individual has a natural right to everything, regardless of the interests of others. Existence in the state of nature is, as Hobbes famously states, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

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   What does it mean to move from nature to civil society?

   • Migrating from the state of nature to the state of civil society is not like moving house. Rather, it is adopting an entirely new form of life. For it to work, along with the transformation of the state, there also needs to be a transformation of the self.

   Kierkegaard and Hobbes on the State of Nature

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   Why do we need a state of nature?

   • The idea of the state of nature, nevertheless, can be useful to contrast the benefits of particular political systems and demonstrate why citizens should comply with the demands of citizenship since the alternative could be chaos or, at least, a less desirable society than that in the present.

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   What is the right of nature?

   • The “right of nature” is the “right to all things” that lead to the free-for-all, and the free-fall, in the state of nature. As legal norms are the product of civil society, there are no legal norms in the state of nature. Without any legal norms, humans in the state of nature simply act according to the right of nature.

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   3 days ago · The state of nature in Hobbes. For Hobbes, the state of nature is characterized by the “war of every man against every man,” a constant and violent condition of competition in which each individual has a natural right to everything, regardless of the interests of others.

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   Feb 1, 2024 · The state of nature is a real or imagined state of human existence before people got together and formed a social contract to live in a political society. It is often used as a philosophical device to examine which rights people should have or not have in society.

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   Feb 12, 2002 · Hobbes argues that the state of nature is a miserable state of war in which none of our important human ends are reliably realizable. Happily, human nature also provides resources to escape this miserable condition.

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   3 days ago · The state of nature, for Rousseau, is a morally neutral and peaceful condition in which (mainly) solitary individuals act according to their basic urges (for instance, hunger) as well as their natural desire for self-preservation. This latter instinct, however, is tempered by an equally natural sense of compassion.

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   Nov 9, 2005 · On this account the state of nature is distinct from political society, where a legitimate government exists, and from a state of war where men fail to abide by the law of reason. Simmons (1993) presents an important challenge to this view.

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   Oct 22, 2024 · Quick Reference. The state of human beings outside civil society, invoked by philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, in order to clarify what is explained by nature as opposed to what is explained by convention, and what is justified in each way. For Hobbes the state of nature is a war of all against all, and the life of man ...

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    Feb 24, 2024 · The paper argues that the transition from the state of nature to the state of civil society involves, not only a change of state, but also a transformation of self. This view of the relationship between the self and the state sees the Hobbesian state through the lens of the Kierkegaardian self.