state of nature
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The determination to do the right thing is a mark of statesmanship as well as virtue, but not necessarily a formula for success in our political state of nature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
There are those who think it’s about man in a state of nature, what we are capable of when society is made primal around us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
For Hobbes, the state of nature was so violent and chaotic that rational individuals would readily consent to the authority of an absolute monarch to establish law and order.
From Slate ● May 9, 2024
And if there’s freedom, it is the false freedom of the state of nature, in which our weapons are always pointed and our eyes are fixed upon one another.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
It cannot, however, in a state of nature, assert itself in all cases, and outwardly upon other individuals, and prevent might from reigning instead of right.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
