civil society

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. All of the institutions, voluntary organizations and corporate bodies that are less than the state but greater than the family. countable,uncountable
  2. Those things expected of a democratic society, such as free speech and human rights. countable,uncountable
  3. Organized, internally peaceful human society; civilization. countable,uncountable
    — The only Way whereby any one divests himself of his natural Liberty, and puts on the Bonds of civil Society, is by agreeing with other Men to join and unite into a Community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure Enjoyment of their Properties, and a greater Security against any that are not of it.

词形变化

civil societies plural

词源

From the archaic sense of civil, “peaceful and well-ordered”. Later senses of civil society reflect 19th-century Hegelian influence, as well as the earlier argument that tyrannical governments exist in the state of nature in relation to their subjects.
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