Appendix B
Hobbes’ View on Human Nature
Students will be able to explain how Hobbes’ view of human nature affected
his ideal form of government using the following key terms: Leviathan, social
contract, absolute monarch, and state of nature
Thomas Hobbes believed humans were born _____________ , ___________ ,
and _____________.
Hobbes thought that in this _______________________ , a human’s life was
______________ and ____________________.
To escape this horrible state of nature, Hobbes believed people should enter into a…