Question: who is the thinker associated with state of nature

title: State of nature
text: John Rawls used what amounted to an artificial state of nature . To develop his theory of justice , Rawls places everyone in the original position . The original position is a hypothetical state of nature used as a thought experiment development to Rawls ' theory of justice . People in the original position have no society and are under a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing how they may benefit from society . They lack foreknowledge of their intelligence , wealth , or abilities . Rawls reasons that people in the original position would want a society where they had their basic liberties protected and where they had some economic guarantees as well . If society were to be constructed from scratch through a social agreement between individuals , these principles would be the expected basis of such an agreement . Thus , these principles should form the basis of real , modern societies since everyone should consent to them if society were organized from scratch in fair agreements .