Meaning of status naturae | Babel Free

Definitions

1. state of nature
   New-Latin, declension-4
2. Equivalent to 'state of nature': The way that people lived before there was any organized society.

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Examples

“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?

“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.

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