State of Nature
Your plane has crashed on a desert island. You have nothing with you but the clothes on your back and whatever is in the plane; you have no food, water, and shelter. The people with you are complete strangers to you; for all you know, they could be thieves or murderers.
Because you are not a part of any real society and there are no laws, government, and authority telling you what you can and can’t do, you have complete freedom to do whatever you please.
You are living in, what philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke called, the “state of nature.” In the “state of nature,” every man and woman is completely equal and has complete freedom of action. You all have your natural rights of life, liberty, and property. However, because there are no formal rules, there is no guarantee that you and your natural rights are secure or safe from one another…
Published 17.03.2026 01:03
by socsci
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