Subject(s): State as a structure of intelligibility -- State and government -- Social Institutions -- Ontological state -- Political practices -- Philosophical foundation of the state -- Prudential and philosophical argument -- Hobbesian metaphysics -- Post-Kantian convergence -- Coherence and ontology -- Human actions -- Omnicompetent state -- Liberal toleration -- Absolute state : authority and resistance -- Political obligation -- Universalization -- Moral freedom and the state