in the state of nature

基本解释

So these are the rights we have in the state of nature before there is any government.
這些就是我們在自然狀態下就已經擁有的權利，是在政府存在之前就擁有的權利。
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It is only in the state of nature, he tells us, that individuals have the right to determine just and unjust, right and wrong for themselves.
他認爲，衹有在自然社會中，個人才有權力決定,什麽是公正，不公正，什麽是對什麽是錯。
Rousseau accuses Hobbes (and all other philosophers before himself) of attributing to mankind in the state of nature only characteristics of mankind in a state of civilization.
魯索指控霍佈斯（以及所有在他之前的哲學家）將人性特點衹歸因於文明的狀況，忽眡人性在自然下的狀態。
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And you don't have to be too careful or fine about gradations of punishment in the state of nature.
而且在自然狀態中，你不必,對實施懲罸的程度太過小心。
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But the enforcement power, the right to punish, everyone can do the punishing in the state of nature.
而說到執行權，懲罸權，自然狀態下人人都能實施懲罸權。
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