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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to

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you by leviathan a term that could describe Hobbes most famous book or a [Leviathan book]

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gigantic monstrous sea creature take a look at this image right there Leviathan

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alright here's the question which best describes the

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state of nature as highlighted in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and here are your

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potential answers..... well you know how when someone sees a [Bird crossing the road]

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person rescue a duckling from oncoming traffic give an underprivileged child a

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new toy or donate their entire paycheck to charity they'll say faith in

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humanity restored right well Hobbes must have seen flattened ducklings, some [Duckling ran over by car and child being robbed]

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children getting robbed and a bunch of charities go bankrupt because his entire

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outlook on life seems to be faith in humanity destroyed.... Hobbes generally

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didn't think too highly of humanity but which of these best describes his

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outlook on the state of nature in his book [Person using magnifying glass to inspect answer choices]

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well sure isn't A - That's right, Hobbes thought that humanity was so bad that

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even God wasn't good enough to save us similarly he thought that the only way [Men firing guns]

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to help control the riving mess that is humanity was to have a supreme authority

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tell us how to act making C an incorrect answer in other words we're

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all bratty kids desperately in need of a stern nanny.. [Kids bullying a boy on a bus]

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where is Mary Poppins when you need her? perhaps some of that whole faith in

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humanity destroyed thing came from Hobbes experience of the English Civil [Soldiers lying on the ground and explosion occurs]

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War which was proof enough for him that the Commonwealth was divided not

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United meaning D won't fit either ultimately Hobbes believed that we're

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all selfish little jerks who will look out for ourselves before anyone else and [Man runs away from young boy]

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that everything we do is for our own self-interest so sorry Harry but we're

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basically all Slytherins, bad news for Gryffindor's

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but looks like B is the correct answer of course the one nice thing about this

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sentiment is that Hobbes ultimately believe that everyone is equal [Man holding equality for all sign]

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hey that's pretty nice equally bad we're all equally terrible greedy selfish

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people...On second thought don't go to Hobbes for a pep talk.

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