Practice mode Miscellaneous Economics

How did the author of a famous treatise on the origin of the state describe life in the state of nature?

Correct answer A. "solitary poor nasty brutish and short"

Explanation

In Leviathan (1651) Thomas Hobbes described life without government as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, justifying a powerful sovereign.

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