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Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), it argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes asserts that civil war and the "nasty, brutish and short" state of nature ("the war of all against all") could be avoided only by a strong, undivided government. | |||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book) | |||
Nasty, brutish, and short appears to be a partial truth. See [[Goliath's Curse]] | |||
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Author of Leviathan which is a book broadly interpretable as the need for state power to cure violence
Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), it argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes asserts that civil war and the "nasty, brutish and short" state of nature ("the war of all against all") could be avoided only by a strong, undivided government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)
Nasty, brutish, and short appears to be a partial truth. See Goliath's Curse