state of nature

How To Use state of nature In A Sentence

• The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
• What Rousseau called the inferior ‘freedom’ of the state of nature may indeed be preferable to the violence and terror of slavery, and perhaps even to the soft contemporary dependency of neocolonialism.
• Finally, a realization of the random variables is a state of nature and is indexed by k.
• After half an hour's hard exercise, the dear creatures had remüé themselves into a perfect fureur, and the piece concluded by the ladies exposing that which is better felt than seen; and, in that state of nature, walked from the bottom of the theatre to the top where we were sitting on the grass, till they approached just by us, and then we complimented them in bowing, with all the honours of war. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
• You opened a jeweled door into degradation, from hypercivilized Byzantine luxury straight into the state of nature. Mr. Sammler's City
• They ‘live in Concubinage - swopping their Wivesas Cattle, and living in a State of Nature, more irregularly and unchastely than the Indians,’ wrote an observer in the South nearly 200 years ago.
• How does Locke characterize the state of nature?
• The advice to diversify is based upon the usual equi-marginal rule – - if you find yourself with a higher marginal utility in one state of nature than the other, you want to keep transferring wealth until this “utility arbitrage” disappears. Superbowl Wrap-Up: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
• But the enforcement power, the right to punish, everyone can do the punishing in the state of nature.
• The ’sixties “opened a jeweled door into degradation,” starting the descent “from hypercivilized Byzantine luxury straight into the state of nature.” Archive 2009-03-01