How To Use State of nature In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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Finally, a realization of the random variables is a state of nature and is indexed by k.
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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
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You opened a jeweled door into degradation, from hypercivilized Byzantine luxury straight into the state of nature.
Mr. Sammler's City
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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.
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How does Locke characterize the state of nature?
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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
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But the enforcement power, the right to punish, everyone can do the punishing in the state of nature.
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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
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This is an amazing example of what John Locke argued in his Second Treatise about what man in a state of nature gives up when he joins a commonwealth and enters a society that agrees to give up some of their power to form a government.
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Besides, that blindness, ignorance, darkness, deadness, which is everywhere ascribed to us in the state of nature, doth fully comprise that also whereof we speak.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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Had I been living unartificially, in a state of nature, I would certainly have brained her husband (a really splendid fellow), and dragged her off with me shameless under the sky.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Enacted constitutions do not come into being against the background of a state of nature of isolated individuals; and by this I do not mean to invoke the too-familiar critique of the supposedly decontextualized liberal person, but rather to critique the aspiration to decontextualize the legal and political order.
Archive 2008-05-01
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That shall civil sayings show] _Civil_ is here used in the same sense as when we say _civil_ wisdom or _civil life_, in opposition to a solitary state, or to the state of nature.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Having proved that the inequality, which may subsist between man and man in a state of nature, is almost imperceivable, and that it has very little influence, I must now proceed to show its origin, and trace its progress, in the successive developments of the human mind.
First Part
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We had a pleasing conviction of the commodiousness of civilization, and heartily laughed at the ravings of those absurd visionaries who have attempted to persuade us of the superior advantages of a state of nature.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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This, according to environmental primitivism, is the perfect, aboriginal state of nature.
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In a state of nature, does a she-cat become pregnant before she is fully grown?
ON CATS
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Rousseau argued that reason had led man out of his innocent state of nature into decadence.
