A concise, personal account of the lives and views of major Western philosophers in their cultural context. The relaxed and witty style of Professor Kreyche's writing coaches students to a solid elementary understanding of key philosophical problems and solutions offered in classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy.

In this paper, I reconstruct Hobbes’ theory of self-love. I then examine Hume’s arguements that (i) self-love does not properly account for moral behavior and (ii) self-love is unnecessary for moral theory. I argue that Hobbesian self-love can account for both of Hume’s objections. Further, I use an analysis of Hobbes’ Deliberation to show, contra Hume, that self-love does not entail a lack of intention in moral action.