“The life of man,” Hobbes observed, “is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” It has been a commonplace to attribute a large share of the responsibility for this chronic state of human affairs to the psychological phenomena referred to in the title of this book: Rage, Power, and Aggression. Freud, of course, played a key role in spawning contemporary versions of this attribution. Philosopher Mark Johnson (1993) captured this psychoanalytically influenced folk psychology in a recent essay on morality. Pointing out that human conflicts cannot be understood simply on the basis of competition for scarce physical resources, Johnson suggested: “For there is evil in the world that goes far beyond this—a seemingly ineradicable aggressive instinct that leads us to inflict suffering on others, as well as on ourselves, even when our basic needs are tolerably well met” (p. 230).