The Fear of Death and the Longing for Immortality: Hobbes and Thucydides on Human Nature and the Problem of Anarchy.

fresh challenges to the modern secular state invite us to reexamine the arguments made through its theoretical founders, especially Hobbes. Hobbes argues that the desire for security is the greatest in quantity reliable and rational desire of our nature, and the state based forward satisfying that desire is completely in harmony with human nature and therefore largely capable of solving the point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled of anarchy. I will examine his argument that anarchy, although in about sense the natural human condition, can be subjugate once and for all by the agency of political institutions that ensure the rational fear of death will