status naturae
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Noun[edit]
status nātūrae m sg (genitive statūs nātūrae); fourth declension
- (New Latin, philosophy) state of nature
- Antonym: status cīvīlis
- 1647, Thomas Hobbes, Elementa Philosophica de Cive, 2nd edition, pages 179–80:
- Quid autem aliud sunt plures respublicæ, quam totidem castra præsidiis & armis contra se invicem munita; quorum status […] pro statu naturali, hoc est, pro statu belli habendus est?
- For what else are many commonwealths than so many camps fortified against one another with guards and arms, the state of which […] is to be taken as the state of nature, that is, the state of war?
- 1845, Dionisio Piccirilli, Philosophiae Universae Institutiones […] , volume 3, page 229:
- Certe status civilis praefert bonum commune particulari, quod solum respicitur in statu naturae; aptior est naturae humanae prae statu naturali; perfectior est statu naturae.
- The civil state certainly prefers the common good to the particular, which alone is respected in the state of nature; it is more fitted to human nature than the state of nature, and more perfect than the state of nature.