The State of Nature, a War of Every Man Against Every Man

The title of scott hurswitzs new book, nasty, brutish and short, may be familiar to you. It is part of a famous phrase written by the seventeenth century philosopher thomas hobbs his book leviathan. Hobbs was curious what life would be like without any government at all, a conditioned philosophers call the state of nature. He thought it would be awful. Indeed, he thought it wouldn't a war of every man against every man. We are lucky. Our lives aren't solitary or poor but our kids are nasty, brutist and short. They are also cute and kind, but all kids are, at times nasty and brutish.