Philosopher Thomas Hobbes sees laws as necessary to restrain and control the "human brute." This brutish view of human nature was also held by
A)Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
B)Albert Bandura.
C)Sigmund Freud.
D)Carl Rogers.

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Thomas Hobbes and Sigmund Freud shared a somewhat pessimistic view of human nature, where Freud's theory of the id, ego, and superego suggests that without societal rules and norms, the id (our primal instincts) would dominate our behavior, similar to Hobbes' view of the necessity of laws to control human brutishness.

Philosopher Thomas Hobbes Sees Laws as Necessary to Restrain and Control