__________________ claimed that people will never live dece…
__________________ claimed that people will never live decent lives (in the “state of nature”) without the imposition of morality upon the culture by a social contract enforced by a Leviathan (king or government). Humans have to come together to invent rules of morality (right and wrong) and give people power to keep us from living in a wild, “survival of the fittest,” world that is “nasty, brutish, and short,” where we are always watching our backs in fear of death.
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