Definitions for state of nature
state of nature

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

1. wild, natural state, state of naturenoun

   a wild primitive state untouched by civilization

   "he lived in the wild"; "they collected mushrooms in the wild"

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1. State of Nature

   State of nature is the hypothetical conditions of human life prior to the rise of societies.

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1. state of nature

   The state of nature refers to a hypothetical condition of humans before the establishment of societal rules, laws, institutions, and government. It's a concept in political philosophy generally associated with philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. It is used to explore ideas about natural rights, human nature, and the origins of society and government. It's often depicted as a state of freedom and equality, but also a state of uncertainty and potential conflict due to absence of formal social structures and laws.

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1. State of nature

   The state of nature is a term in political philosophy used in social contract theories to describe the hypothetical condition that preceded governments. There must have been a time before government, and so the question is how legitimate government could emerge from such a starting position, and what are the hypothetical reasons for entering a state of society by establishing a government. In some versions of social contract theory, there are no rights in the state of nature, only freedoms, and it is the contract that creates rights and obligations. In other versions the opposite occurs: the contract imposes restrictions upon individuals that curtail their natural rights. The time-period before the establishment of government, which political philosophers call the "state of nature," however, is regarded in the modern scientific era not only as hypothetical but actual. Societies existing before or without a political state are currently studied in such diverse fields as paleolithic history, archaeology, cultural anthropology, social anthropology, and ethnology, which investigate the social and power-related structures of indigenous and uncontacted peoples living in tribal communities.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of state of nature in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of state of nature in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of state of nature in a Sentence

1. Charles de Montesquieu:

   In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

2. Samuel Adams:

   All Men have a Right to remain in a State of Nature as long as they please: And in case of intolerable Oppression, civil or religious, to leave the Society they belong to and enter into another. When Men enter into Society, it is by voluntary Consent, and they have a Right to demand and insist upon the performance of such Conditions and previous Limitations as form an equitable original Compact.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=state of nature
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Nature
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=state of nature