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Introduction : comparative states of nature / Russell Arben Fox -- S elf-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 Confu cian tradition, nature, and civil education / Russell Arben Fox -- Stat es of nature : counter-Confucianism and the Daoist encounter with liber alism / Eric Goodfield -- Mozi, Hobbes, Locke and the state of nature / Al Martinich and Siwing Tsoi -- Chinese sage kings and the Hobbesian s tate of nature : bridging comparative political thought and internation al 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 / Magi d Shihade -- "He state of nature and domesticated differences in ancien t Indian political thought : a historical-comparative approach / Stuart Gray -- On Matsyanyaya : the state of nature in Indian thought (from A sian philosophy) / David Slakter -- "I'd rather just devolve, thank you " : Enkidu, Gilgamesh, and an ambiguous state of nature / Stefan Dolger t -- The problem of the state of nature in medieval Jewish political ph ilosophy / Abraham Melamed -- The nature of the state without the state of nature : Micronesia and Polynesia / Michael Stoil -- Conclusion : s tates of nature : consilience, syncretism, and challenges for comparati ve political thought / Jon D. Carlson.