Kaivkino hobsističko prirodno stanje i zadovoljavajuća država
Kavka’s Theory on Hobbesian State of Nature and of a Satisfactory State

Summary/Abstract: In the frame of this paper the author analyses and discusses the reinterpretation of the seventeenth century English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588— 1679) given by the contemporary American philosopher Gregory S. Kavka. The state of nature, the social contract (pact) and forming the very first state and the problem of complience to its new formed government are being discussed. The question arises how is it possible at all to make the social contract because it is still a “state of nature contract”, and in these conditions contracts do not oblige while there is yet no one to punish rebellion of disobedience. (Rather, the state should be a result of that contract.) The other question concerns the possibility of establishing morality in the state of nature, because no authority is formed there and therefore moral code or positive law system are nonexistent. The author claims (together with Kavka) that in spite of the fact that there exists no entire moral code, the possibility of elementar traces of morality exists, because morality and nature (from humanistic outlook) are timeless, as state of nature is, too.

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