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  2. State of nature - Wikipedia

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    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).

  3. Leviathan (Hobbes book) - Wikipedia

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    Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668).

  4. Social contract - Wikipedia

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    According to Hobbes, the lives of individuals in the state of nature were "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short", a state in which self-interest and the absence of rights and contracts prevented the "social", or society. Life was "anarchic" (without leadership or the concept of sovereignty).

  5. Liz Truss’s memoir is ludicrous and shows how unworthy of ...

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    In the case of Liz Truss, there is little she can do to change the verdict of history on her nasty, brutish and freakishly short time in office. Her ludicrous memoir merely confirms that fact.

  6. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    It predates Nast by several centuries, appearing in the most famous sentence of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, that in the state of nature, the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". That work was published in 1651, whereas Nast was born in 1840.

  7. Autofiction (album) - Wikipedia

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    During an interview on the anniversary of Coming Up, lead singer Brett Anderson described the new album's sound as "nasty, brutish and short". Eighteen months after the initial announcement, on 23 May 2022, it was announced that the title of the new album was Autofiction and that it would be released via BGM on 16 September the same year.

  8. Blast Rites: Memoriam’s Karl Willetts Returns to the ... - AOL

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    Also keeping things nasty, brutish and short are Heaven’s Gate, a new quasi-supergroup from Tampa, Fla. that unites Municipal Waste and Iron Reagan frontman Tony Foresta with guitarist Mike Goo ...

  9. Human nature - Wikipedia

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    He also very influentially described man's natural state (without science and artifice) as one where life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short". [83] Following him, John Locke 's philosophy of empiricism also saw human nature as a tabula rasa .