There can be no doubt that Thomas Hobbes intended to create acomplete philosophical system. In recent years, piecemeal analysis hasignored that intention and reduced his philosophy to an unsystematicjumble of irreconcilable parts. It is generally believed thatHobbes's mechanistic physics is at odds with his notorious egoisticpsychology, and that the latter cannot support his prescriptive moraltheory. In this book Gary B. Herbert sets forth an entirely newinterpretation of Hobbes's philosophy that takes seriouslyHobbes's original systematic intention.