state of nature

They feared satellites powerful enough to zoom in on individuals, capturing close-ups that might differentiate adults from children or suited sunbathers from those in a state of nature.

In many ways, this is survival of the fittest and a type of state of nature that is anathema to democracy, human flourishing, and progress.

And if there’s freedom, it is the false freedom of the state of nature, in which our weapons are always pointed and our eyes are fixed upon one another.

Tony Goldner, executive director of the TNFD, said that while the risks of climate change have long been a focus of many companies, the wider state of nature is beginning to be looked at.

In the purported "state of nature," Locke contends, everyone enjoyed limitless natural rights, but none of them was secure.