Hobbes: LeviathanCambridge University Press, 1996 - 616 pages "Leviathan" is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. This revised edition of the work includes an amplified and expanded introduction, an extensive guide to further reading, a note on textual matters, and a chronology of important events. |
Contents
OF MAN | 13 |
Of IMAGINATION | 15 |
Of the Consequence or TRAYNE of Imaginations | 20 |
Of SPEECH | 24 |
Of REASONS and SCIENCE | 31 |
Of the Interiour Beginnings of Voluntary Motions commonly called the PASSIONS And the Speeches by which they are expressed | 37 |
Of the Ends or Resolutions of DISCOURSE | 47 |
Of the VERTUES commonly called INTELLECTUALL and their contrary Defects | 50 |
0f CIVILL LAWES | 183 |
Of CRIMES EXCUSES and EXTENIATIONS | 201 |
Of PUNISHMENTS and REWARDS | 214 |
Of those things that Weaken or tend to the DISSOLUTION of a Commonwealth | 221 |
Of the OFFICE of the Soveraign Representative | 231 |
Of the KINGDOME of GOD BY NATURE | 245 |
OF A CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH | 255 |
Of the Number Antiquity Scope Authority and Interpreters of the Books of HOLY SCRIPTURE | 260 |
Of the Severall SUBJECTS of KNOWLEDGE | 60 |
Of POWER WORTH DIGNITY HONOUR and WORTHINESS | 62 |
Of the difference of MANNERS | 69 |
Of Religion | 75 |
Of the NATURALL CONDITION of Mankind as concerning their Felicity and Misery | 86 |
Of the first and second NATURALL LAWES and of CONTRACTS | 91 |
Of other Lawes of NATURE | 100 |
Of PERSONS AUTHORS and things Personated | 111 |
OF COMMONWEALTH | 117 |
Of the RIGHT of Soveraignes by Institution | 121 |
Of the severall Kinds of COMMONWEALTH by Institution and of Succession to the Soveraigne Power | 129 |
Of Dominion PATERNALL and DESPOTICALL | 138 |
Of the LIBERTY of Subjects | 145 |
Of SYSTEMS Subject Politicall and Private | 155 |
Of the PUBLIQUE MINISTERS of Soveraign Power | 166 |
Of the NUTRITION and PROCREATION of a Commonwealth | 170 |
Of COUNSELL | 176 |
Of the Signification of SPIRIT ANGEL and INSPIRATION in the Books of Holy Scripture | 269 |
Of the Signification in Scripture of KINGDOME OF GOD Of HOLY SACRED and SACRAMENT | 280 |
Of the WORD OF GOD and of PROPHETS | 287 |
Of MIRACLES and their Use | 300 |
Of the Signification in Scripture of ETERNALL LIFE HELL SALVATION THE WORLD TO COME and REDEMPTION | 306 |
Of the signification in Scripture of the word CHURCH | 320 |
Of the RIGHTS of the Kingdome of God in Abraham Moses the High Priests and the Kings of Judah | 322 |
Of the OFFICE of our BLESSED SAVIOUR | 332 |
Of POWER ECCLESIASTICALL | 338 |
Of what is NECESSARY for a Mans Reception into the Kingdome of Heaven | 402 |
OF THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESSE | 417 |
Of DAEMONOLOGY and other Reliques of the Religion of the Gentiles | 440 |
Of DARKNESSE from VAIN PHILOSOPHY and FABULOUS TRADITIONS | 458 |
Of the BENEFIT that proceedeth from such Darknesse and to whom it accreweth | 474 |
A REVIEW and CONCLUSION | 483 |
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