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Political Science QUESTION #6662
Question 1

In the theory of Social Contract, which thinker described the state of nature as 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'?

  • John Locke
  • Thomas Hobbes✔️
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • None of these
Correct Answer Explanation

Thomas Hobbes used this description in 'Leviathan' to justify the need for an absolute sovereign.