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    The transition from the state of nature to the civil stat... — Carmelics
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    The transition from the state of nature to the civil state requires the universal renunciation of certain natural rights and the investment of those prerogatives in a central authority.

    Rights & LibertySocial Contract
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    • 1.In the state of nature, each person seeks his own advantage without limitation.
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    • 2.Natural rights such as the right of avenging oneself and judging good and evil must be surrendered to establish civil order.
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    • 3.A central authority is needed to hold these prerogatives in order to restrain passion-driven self-interest.
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    • 1.Locke argues that natural rights to life, liberty, and property are inalienable and cannot be legitimately transferred to any sovereign authority.
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    • 2.A transfer of rights that includes the power to violate those very rights dissolves the rational basis for consenting to civil society in the first place.
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    • 3.Therefore, civil authority is bounded by prior natural rights rather than constituted by their universal renunciation.
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    • 1.Proudhon and later anarchist thinkers demonstrate that decentralized, voluntary associations can produce social order without concentrating prerogatives in a single authority.
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    • 2.If coordinated restraint of passion-driven self-interest is achievable through horizontal mutual obligation, the necessity of a central sovereign holding surrendered rights is an unwarranted empirical assumption, not a logical entailment.
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    Key Terms

    Central authority(as used in political philosophy)
    A single ruling power or government that makes decisions and enforces rules for an entire group or nation.
    Civil state(Kantian political philosophy.)
    The political order that establishes the rights necessary to secure equal freedom.
    Universal renunciation(as used in social contract theory)
    The idea that everyone gives up certain freedoms or powers at the same time, with no exceptions, usually as part of a deal to create a functioning society.
    natural rights(The rights framework within which the argument about post-humans and disenfranchisement is conducted)
    Rights claimed by virtue of an entity's capacities or nature, not merely by legal or social convention
    social contract(Rawls's interpretation of the social contract tradition)
    A hypothetical situation or thought experiment designed to uncover the most reasonable principles of justice, not an actual historical event.
    state of nature(Lockean political philosophy)
    A condition in which no political authority is already in place, and in which anyone may have the right to make proposals to which others can consent.

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    There are a number of social and political ramifications that follow from Spinoza’s ethical doctrines of human action and well-being. Because disagreement and discord between human beings is always the result of our different and changeable passions, “free” individuals—who all share the same nature and act on the same principles—will naturally and effortlessly form a harmonious society. “Insofar as men are torn by affects that are passions, they can be contrary to one another …[But] insofar as m
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    Locke argues that natural rights to life, liberty, and property are inalienable ...Natural rights such as the right of avenging oneself and judging good and evil m...Proudhon and later anarchist thinkers demonstrate that decentralized, voluntary ...Therefore, civil authority is bounded by prior natural rights rather than consti...

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