Discussion
Select the correct answer by using the codes given below :
Assertion (A) : Hobbes said "Man is solitary poor, nasty, brutish and short".
Reason (R) : There can be no morality, justice, industry and civilisation.
Codes :
Answer: B
Both (A) and (R) are correct, and (R) is the reason of (A).
In Leviathan (chapter 13), Hobbes describes the state of nature, a war of all against all, in which there is no place for industry, arts or society, and the notions of right and wrong and of justice have no place. The 'life of man' in that condition is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'; the paper's assertion paraphrases this famous line.
The misery of life in the state of nature follows from the absence of morality, justice, industry and civilisation, so the reason explains the assertion, which rules out option D. A and C are wrong because both statements are Hobbes's.
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