... with Kierkegaard the existentialist philosopher through the prism of the state of nature. It compares Kierkegaard's account of the emergence of ethical norms from the aesthetic stage of life with Hobbes's account of the emergence of legal norms from the state of nature. The paper argues that the transition from...

... inputs, a few soil-related “state-of-nature” variables measured by soil analysis, and education, which are usually considered constraints to farm production, were obtained, and two examples of policy applications were developed. constraints disaggregated analysis farm production structure flexibility...

... in the state of nature, and his moral teaching conveyed through his doctrine of the laws of nature, the chapter shows that Hobbes was a moral revolutionary whose aim was to move society toward a moral outlook based on individualism, self-interest, rights, and civility. The chapter culminates in a critical...

...Even supposing that Kant can solve the fundamental questions of political philosophy in the foundation of “the” State, nature-as-violence returns at the level of the relation between states. Solving this (external) problem turns out to be a pre-requisite for solving the “internal” problems of state...

.... Kant argues that our innate right to external freedom requires the establishment of the state. This chapter begins by explaining this argument. It considers different ways of construing the problems in the state of nature to which the state is supposed to be the solution. It then explores what kind...

... the Enlightenment genre of conjectural history. Four functions performed by Hume’s fiction of a counterpossible state of nature are identified, and it is shown how Hume introduces two key ideas: that under certain circumstances, the motivations to engage in a practice need to be non-instrumental motivations...

.... It reconstructs his argument for private property and political government through the lens of universal crime in a colonial context. Once humanity is stipulated as the earth’s stakeholder in the state of nature, the failure to enclose land via labor wastes the earth’s potential and instantiates an offense...

...The seventeenth century witnessed the continued rivalry between moral tradition and striking first in the writings of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes, both of whom likened states to individuals living outside the bounds of civil government. Hobbes called this situation a “state of nature” and argued...

... in the opposite direction to that pointed out by David Hume: back to Thomas Hobbes. The chapter begins with a discussion of Rousseau's idea of the state of nature as well as the views of Rousseau and Hume on pity, justice, property, and deception. It then analyzes Rousseau's The Social Contract...

... forms of government. Accordingly, Deadwood raises the same issues broached in the state-of-nature thinking of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Deadwood portrays people in a pre-political condition, although, as the chapter shows, it might be better...

... not only that they are capable of making crucial determinations concerning the limits of political power, but also that they are obligated to do so. His account of the state of nature is not simply a heuristic device illustrating an abstract theory of government, but an attempt to provide tangible support...

... such as the story of a social contract. freedom to philosophise love of neighbour piety religious pluralism true religion Verbeek T Balibar E Lucchese F Machiavelli N sovereign state Uyl D den Aristotle charismatic leaders Enden F van republic state of nature Cicero Curley E Heerich H Hobbes T...

... initiates the social contract account by showing how the notion of truth might find a use in a cognitive state of nature—by bringing out the baseline of “plain truths” to which all other claims to truth must be responsible. The notion of a cognitive state of nature, and of plain truths, are ones introduced...

... anthropomorphism incarnation church and state free speech liberty political order civil disobedience law peace prophetic order rhetoric social contract democracy conatus natural law natural right power rights and powers civil society justice sovereignty state of nature constitution freedom...

... Aphra Genesis book of Wilmot John second Earl of Rochester Homer Dryden John Tonson Jacob Marchetti Alessandro Lucretius atheism state of nature materialism Thomas Hobbes Pierre Gassendi John Evelyn Lucy Hutchinson Thomas Creech John Dryden The English revolution of the mid-seventeenth...

... David C worker s self serving bias statelessness State of nature Lockean proviso Hobbesian hypothesis Property (property rights theory) John Locke Libertarian (-ism) Propertarian (ism) Appropriation (theory) Statelessness (stateless people) Locke (1960: “Second Treatise,” §25–§51...

... Anthropological Institute Salzman Philip Carl Cashdan Elizabeth State of nature Lockean proviso Hobbesian hypothesis Statelessness (stateless people(s) Small-scale society (societies) Hunter-gatherer(s) (hunter-gatherer society (-ies)) Band(s) (band society (-ies)) Violence hypothesis Jared Diamond...

... to property rights theorists: concede this book’s empirical findings and blame government failure. Section 4 considers the argument that this book misidentifies the state of nature. Section 5 considers a “bracketing strategy,” which admits that observed stateless societies fit the definition of the state...

... Violence and the Sacred Girard Catholicism Morgan Thomas Tindal Matthew Wellhausen Julius Durkheim Émile Maine Henry Miller Geoffrey Sykes Arthur Cain and Abel veil of ignorance Homo Sacer Agamben anomie concentration camps inversion rituals state of nature totalitarianism interregnum...

...This chapter argues that principal claims of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan are deliverances of a thought experiment in which we imagine away the existence of governmental authority and ask what the human condition would be like without it. It begins by expounding on the state of nature...