History of Ideas: Hobbes on the State
TALKING POLITICS
Hobbes and the Brain Fever in Leviathan
Hobbes is known for his description of the world after the state has been created. His catchphrase is nasty brutish and short to describe the life of humans in the absence of a state. Hobbes did not think that people were nasty nasty brutish and short does not describe human motivation it describes our lives in the state of nature unpleasant brutish no better in a way than what an animal might expect short because we are nasty but because we can't trust each other.
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