State of nature in comparative poltical thought western and non-western perspectives

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : comparative states of nature / Russell Arben Fox -- Self-transformation and civil society : Lockean vs. Confucian / Sungmoon Kim -- Han Feizi's philosophical psychology : human nature, scarcity, and the neodarwinian consensus / Owen Flanagan and Jing Hu -- The Confucian tradition, nature, and civil education / Russell Arben Fox -- States of nature : counter-Confucianism and the Daoist encounter with liberalism / Eric Goodfield -- Mozi, Hobbes, Locke and the state of nature / Al Martinich and Siwing Tsoi -- Chinese sage kings and the Hobbesian state of nature : bridging comparative political thought and international relations theory / Jon D. Carlson -- States of nature and islands of politics : animality, death, colonialism / Murad Idris -- Ibn Khaldoun : writing from the margin : the state of nature-to remain there / Magid Shihade -- "He state of nature and domesticated differences in ancient Indian political thought : a historical-comparative approach / Stuart Gray -- On Matsyanyaya : the state of nature in Indian thought (from Asian philosophy) / David Slakter -- "I'd rather just devolve, thank you" : Enkidu, Gilgamesh, and an ambiguous state of nature / Stefan Dolgert -- The problem of the state of nature in medieval Jewish political philosophy / Abraham Melamed -- The nature of the state without the state of nature : Micronesia and Polynesia / Michael Stoil -- Conclusion : states of nature : consilience, syncretism, and challenges for comparative political thought / Jon D. Carlson.