Philosophical concept
State of nature
The state of nature describes free and equal persons under natural law before a common political judge; it is therefore not identical with the state of war.
- Works
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- Passages
- 19
- Thinkers
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- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
The state of nature describes free and equal persons under natural law before a common political judge; it is therefore not identical with the state of war.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 19 passages across 1 works, including Second Treatise of Government. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
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Works where the concept is identified
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 19 passages