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Parental responsibility: State of nature or nature of the state?
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 1991Abstract “Parental responsibility” is a central concept in the Children Act 1989. The expression can represent two ideas: one, that parents must behave dutifully towards their children; the other, that responsibility for child care belongs to parents, not the state.
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States In Nature, Nature In States
2010This chapter introduces ideas and metaphors from ecological immunity and biomedicine as a way to illuminate the relationship between bodies and states. Rather than arguing that the state and the body should be separated, this chapter intervenes on this metaphorical relationship by enlivening our ideas of the “body” in the body politic.
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2015
This chapter examines whether it is possible for human beings to live in a state of nature. Sometimes it is claimed that not only have human beings always lived under a state, but that it is the only way they possibly could live. On this view, which is often associated with Aristotle, the state exists naturally in the sense of being natural to human ...
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This chapter examines whether it is possible for human beings to live in a state of nature. Sometimes it is claimed that not only have human beings always lived under a state, but that it is the only way they possibly could live. On this view, which is often associated with Aristotle, the state exists naturally in the sense of being natural to human ...
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The State of Nature and Natural Law
1992Having set the stage, Hobbes now starts moving towards the heart of his thesis in Chapter XIII, ‘Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity, and Misery’. He regards men as equal by nature, at least in the sense of physical vulnerability, since it is not difficult for even a relatively weak person to kill someone else no matter how
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The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2010
Philosophers who find the concept of a state of nature to be useful for thinking about moral and political issues have generally assumed that such a state can be understood in either a Hobbesian or a Lockean way, but not both. Hobbesian and Lockean states of nature are thought to be mutually incompatible in the sense that the empirical generalizations ...
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Philosophers who find the concept of a state of nature to be useful for thinking about moral and political issues have generally assumed that such a state can be understood in either a Hobbesian or a Lockean way, but not both. Hobbesian and Lockean states of nature are thought to be mutually incompatible in the sense that the empirical generalizations ...
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1984
The inauguration of Babrak Karmal’s Government right at the end of 1979 could hardly have come at a worse time, after the Soviet invasion and occupation of the cities. Each of the three previous Presidents of Afghanistan had died violently during the past twenty months, Daoud replaced by Taraki, Taraki by Amin and now he in turn by Karmal. Whatever the
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The inauguration of Babrak Karmal’s Government right at the end of 1979 could hardly have come at a worse time, after the Soviet invasion and occupation of the cities. Each of the three previous Presidents of Afghanistan had died violently during the past twenty months, Daoud replaced by Taraki, Taraki by Amin and now he in turn by Karmal. Whatever the
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AbstractThe chapter examines the various contrasts that were developed in Western traditions between “civil” societies and “pre-civilized” societies in the state of nature. The rights of Indigenous peoples were drawn into early modern debates concerning property, often with reference to biblical arguments.
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