Hobbes Was Right

Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan in 1651, famously describing the state-of-nature of Man as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." This stands in stark contrast to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's more optimistic views posited nearly a century later, with these two perspectives still debated today. Hobbes' ideas were influential in early Social Contract theory and laid the foundation for modern Realist theory in International Relations. Show the world you're a Realist and that "Hobbes Was Right."