Ross Harrison writes that "Hobbes seems to have invented this useful term." See Ross Harrison, Locke, Hobbs, and Confusion's Masterpiece (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p.70. The phrase "state of nature" does occur, in Thomas Aquinas's Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate, Question 19, Article 1, Answer 13เก็บถาวร 2017-10-19 ที่ เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน. However, Aquinas uses it in the context of a discussion of the nature of the soul after death, not in reference to politics.
Ross Harrison writes that "Hobbes seems to have invented this useful term." See Ross Harrison, Locke, Hobbs, and Confusion's Masterpiece (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p.70. The phrase "state of nature" does occur, in Thomas Aquinas's Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate, Question 19, Article 1, Answer 13เก็บถาวร 2017-10-19 ที่ เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน. However, Aquinas uses it in the context of a discussion of the nature of the soul after death, not in reference to politics.