Which of the following philosophers believed that, in the state of nature, man's life was "nasty, brutish, and short?"

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

Baron de Montesquieu

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Respuesta :

Thomas Hobbes
In this state, every person has a natural right to do anything one thinks necessary for preserving one's own life, and life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" (Leviathan, Chapters XIII–XIV).
Thomas Hobbes
He was the one who believed that the state of nature, mans life was “nasty, brutish, and short”