Leviathan

by

Thomas Hobbes

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2007

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    INTRODUCTION

    THE FIRST PART: Of Man

  1. Of sense
  2. Of imagination
  3. Of the consequence or train of imaginations
  4. Of speech
  5. Of reason and science
  6. Of the interior beginnings of voluntary motions, commonly called the passions; and the speeches by which they are expressed
  7. Of the ends or resolutions of discourse
  8. Of the virtues commonly called intellectual; and their contrary defects
  9. Of the several subject of knowledge
  10. Of power, worth, dignity, honour and worthiness
  11. Of the difference of manners
  12. Of religion
  13. Of the natural condition of mankind as concerning their felicity and misery
  14. Of the first and second natural laws, and of contracts
  15. Of other laws of nature
  16. Of persons, authors, and things personated

    THE SECOND PART: Of Commonwealth

  17. Of the causes, generation, and definition of a Commonwealth
  18. Of the rights of sovereigns by institution
  19. Of the several kinds of Commonwealth by institution, and of succession to the sovereign power
  20. Of dominion paternal and despotical
  21. Of the liberty of subjects
  22. Of systems subject political and private
  23. Of the public ministers of sovereign power
  24. Of the nutrition and procreation of a commonwealth
  25. Of counsel
  26. Of civil laws
  27. Of crimes, excuses, and extenuations
  28. Of punishments and rewards
  29. Of those things that weaken or tend to the dissolution of a commonwealth
  30. Of the office of the sovereign representative
  31. Of the kingdom of God by nature

    THE THIRD PART: Of a christian commonwealth

  32. Of the principles of Christian politics
  33. Of the number, antiquity, scope, authority, and interpreters of the Books of Holy Scripture
  34. Of the signification of spirit, angel, and inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture
  35. Of the signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament
  36. Of the Word of God, and of prophets
  37. Of miracles and their use
  38. Of the signification in Scripture of eternal life, hell, salvation, the world to come, and redemption
  39. Of the signification in Scripture of the Word Church
  40. Of the rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the high priests, and the Kings of Judah
  41. Of the office of Our Blessed Saviour
  42. Of power ecclesiastical
  43. Of what is necessary for a man's reception into the Kingdom of Heaven

    THE FOURTH PART: Of the kingdom of darkness

  44. Of spiritual darkness from misinterpretation of scripture
  45. Of demonology and other relics of the religion of the gentiles
  46. Of darkness from vain philosophy and fabulous traditions
  47. Of the benefit that proceedeth from such darkness, and to whom it accrueth

    48. A Review and Conclusion

Frontispiece, 1651
Frontispiece to the edition of 1651

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