[In the state of nature] Whatsoever therefore is consequent
to a time of War, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent
to the time wherein men live without other security, than what their own
strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition,
there is no place for Industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and
consequently no Culture of the Earth, no Navigation, nor use of the commodities
that may be imported by Sea, no commodious Building, no Instruments of moving,
and removing such things as require much force, no Knowledge of the face of the
Earth, no account of Time, no Arts, no Letters, no Society, and which is worst
of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death, and the life of man,
solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short . . .
In this excerpts from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes the “State
of Nature” is a place and time under the following conditions: “No Knowledge of
the face of the Earth, no account of Time, no Arts, no Letters, no Society, and
which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death, and the
life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short . . .”. Hobbes considers
the State of Nature to be a condition where people have no culture and act
uncivilized. State of Nature is a setting where are no social contracts and the only interaction between mankind is a permanent state of conflict, fear and inclination to fight
against each other, all of these because of the lack of a sovereign power
mandating rules or imposing laws over people.
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