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The State of Nature

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The state of nature is the imagined condition of human life with no government, no law, and no power able to enforce agreements.

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Hobbes drew the picture: without a common power, life runs to "continual fear, and danger of violent death" — "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

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