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Pufendorf distinguishes two such states, natural and adventitious, the former referring to the natural state occupied by all humans as such (thus, the "state of humanity"), and the latter to the special conditions, institutions, or standing (e.g., commercial, marital, civil) that differentially accompany it, in being created by and imposed on particular sorts of persons.
The first of these designates the human condition as such, conceived negatively as a "state of humanity" in contrast to both the amoral state of beasts but also "toward [or against] God".
Have you read Julian Simon's "The State of Humanity"?
This is tragically mirrored in the current state of humanity.
The brutish state of humanity is a given, and kindness an aberration.
In terms of improving the state of humanity, I don't see the direct connection.
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Hyperbole suits Love's voice: always declamatory, it hasn't gained delicacy with age, so he rarely calls upon her to do anything other than belt, and in state-of-humanity songs such as Jimmy Webb's Who Under Heaven and his own Among the Believers, she does so with the conviction of a Hollywood superhero battling apocalypse.
This is perhaps unsurprising given the poor state of humanities departments.
Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History, assessed the state of humanities education in America at a retreat last month at the Mountain Lakes House in Princeton that attracted more than 30 faculty members.
And also being pretty far out and philosophical, talking existentially about the state of mankind and humanity.
Thus, imperfect humans always remain (albeit tenuously) in the initial state of (mere) humanity (DJN II.2.9 10), even when the other two natural states have been partially sublated by culture and politics; for they are always subject to, and somehow responsible for, the norms deriving from divine imposition or, alternatively, required by and for human beings as such.
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