In his seminal work, Leviathan, the 17th-century English political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, conceptualised what he called the state of nature – a hypothetical arrangement in which people lived without a government, public laws or sovereign authority.
Hobbes argued that the state of nature soon turned into a state of war, a war of all against all, where people lived in “continuous fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.
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