Product Description: Death, violent or otherwise, is a matter of widespread concern with ongoing debates about such matters as euthanasia and the nature of brain death. Philosophers have often argued about the rationality of fear of death. This book argues that that dispute has been misconceived: fear of death is not something that follows or fails to follow from reason, but rather, it forms the basis of reasoning and helps to show why people must be cooperating beings who accept certain sorts of facts as reasons for acting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This interpretation of the moral and political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes argues that he well understood the importance of moral behaviour to civilized society. Challenging currently fashionable game theoretic reconstructions of Hobbesian logic, the author contends that modern readers have misconstrued his view of the relationship between politics and morality...read more