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Who stated that the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short?

In Chapter 13 of Leviathan (1651), Thomas Hobbes famously described the condition of human life in the pre-political state of nature—marked by perpetual insecurity and a war…

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Who stated that the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short?

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In Chapter 13 of Leviathan (1651), Thomas Hobbes famously described the condition of human life in the pre-political state of nature—marked by perpetual insecurity and a war of every man against every man—as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

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