) Hobbes called the hypothetical time before the creation of government, with no laws to regulate our behavior, the ____________

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) Hobbes called the hypothetical time before the creation of government, with no laws to regulate our behavior, the ____________

_________________________________________, and he described life there as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

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Tcecarenko [31] · Answer 1 · 2022-04-01T08:56:00+03:00

Answer:

The state of nature

Explanation:

According to Hobbes, the state of nature is the state where individuals do not live in society, nor under any government.

In this state of nature, each people take care of themselves only, in a war against everyone else for survival.

Because everything can be taken from them at any moment, people do not have any incentive to produce more than what is needed for basic survival.

The state of nature ends when people form a social contract, in which the give power to a government (the leviathan) in exchange for the protection of life, liberty, and private property.