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| War: War is an armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. See also Conflicts, Peace, Violence, Coercion, State, Politics._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Locke on War - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 250 War/Locke/Höffe: In contrast to his contract-theoretical predecessors ((s) >Social Contract/Hobbes, >Contract Theory/Spinoza) Locke knows two states preceding the social contract, the peaceful natural state and the violent state of war. For as soon as someone "tries to bring another person into his absolute power, he puts himself"(1) into the "state of enmity, malice, violence and mutual annihilation"(2), hence into a pre-contractual alternative to the natural state, into a state of war. 1. J. Locke, Second treatise of Government, 1689/90, § 17 2. Ibid. § 19_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Loc III J. Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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