Which English philosopher wrote the 1651 work 'Leviathan', arguing that humans in a state of nature would lead lives that are 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'?
Few works in moral and political philosophy have shaped Western thinking about social contracts as profoundly as this 17th-century treatise. Its grim view of human nature remains widely quoted in ethical debates today.
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