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Thomas Hobbes' state of nature is famously described as:

  1. a golden age of peace
  2. solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
  3. naturally cooperative
  4. governed by reason
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Correct answer: B. solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

1. Hobbes wrote during the English Civil War. 2. Without sovereign authority, life devolves into a war of all against all. 3. The phrase appears in "Leviathan" (1651). __Source: syllabus Political Theory Ch 1 — social contract tradition__

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