Full Idea
We must agree with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau that nothing genuinely worthy of being called a state of nature will, at least in the long term, be a condition in which human beings can flourish.
Gist of Idea
Human beings can never really flourish in a long-term state of nature
Source
Jonathan Wolff (An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Rev) [2006], 1 'Conc')
A Reaction
Given our highly encultured concept of modern flourishing, that is obviously right. There may be another reality where hom sap flourishes in a quite different and much simpler way. Education as personal, not institutional?
Book Reference
Wolff,Jonathan: 'An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Rev)' [OUP 2006], p.33