Thomas Hobbes's Claim in His Book Leviathan That Life Was

question 73

Multiple Choice

Thomas Hobbes's claim in his book Leviathan that life was "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short" was an argument

• A) in favor of disorder.
• B) praising the fervor of war.
• C) for the establishment of states imposing order and laws.
• D) that the origins of sovereign power did not at all involve the governed.
• E) for classical theories of a transcendent order in the universe.

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