Hobbes paints the ‘state of nature’ in very bleak terms. Is he right about the character of life without agreed-upon political authority? Critically discuss.

  
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes claims that when human beings are in a ‘state of nature’, ‘there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.’ (Leviathan, Part 1, XIII)

Hobbes paints the ‘state of nature’ in very bleak terms. Is he right about the character of life without agreed-upon political authority? Critically discuss. 

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