Leviathan

by

Thomas Hobbes

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2007

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  1. Introduction

    The First Part: Of Man

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

    The Second Part: Of Commonwealth

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

    The Third Part: Of a Christian Commonwealth

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

    The Fourth Part: Of the kingdom of darkness

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

    A Review and Conclusion

Frontispiece, 1651
Frontispiece to the edition of 1651

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