Leviathan

(The Matter Forme Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical And Civill)

Thomas Hobbes

• Publisher: Pomodoro Books
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781998382408
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

"During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre"Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that man's essential nature is competitive and selfish, Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign—or "Leviathan"—to enforce peace and the law, substituting security for the anarchic freedom he believed human beings would otherwise experience. This worldview shocked many of Hobbes's contemporaries, and his work was publicly burnt for sedition and blasphemy when it was first published. But in his rejection of Aristotle's view of man as a naturally social being, and in his painstaking analysis of the ways in which society can and should function, Hobbes opened up a whole new world of political science.

Table of contents

• Contents
• THE INTRODUCTION
• PART I. OF MAN
• CHAPTER II. OF IMAGINATION
• CHAPTER III. OF THE CONSEQUENCE OR TRAYNE OF IMAGINATIONS
• CHAPTER IV. OF SPEECH
• CHAPTER V. OF REASON, AND SCIENCE.
• CHAPTER VI. OF THE INTERIOUR BEGINNINGS OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS COMMONLY CALLED THE PASSIONS, AND THE SPEECHES BY WHICH THEY ARE EXPRESSED.
• CHAPTER VII. OF THE ENDS OR RESOLUTIONS OF DISCOURSE
• CHAPTER VIII. OF THE VERTUES COMMONLY CALLED INTELLECTUAL, AND THEIR CONTRARY DEFECTS
• CHAPTER IX. OF THE SEVERALL SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE
• CHAPTER X. OF POWER, WORTH, DIGNITY, HONOUR AND WORTHINESS
• CHAPTER XI. OF THE DIFFERENCE OF MANNERS
• CHAPTER XII. OF RELIGION
• CHAPTER XIII. OF THE NATURALL CONDITION OF MANKIND, AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY, AND MISERY
• CHAPTER XIV. OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURALL LAWES, AND OF CONTRACTS
• CHAPTER XV. OF OTHER LAWES OF NATURE
• CHAPTER XVI. OF PERSONS, AUTHORS, AND THINGS PERSONATED
• PART II. OF COMMON-WEALTH
• CHAPTER XVIII. OF THE RIGHTS OF SOVERAIGNES BY INSTITUTION
• CHAPTER XIX. OF THE SEVERALL KINDS OF COMMON-WEALTH BY INSTITUTION, AND OF SUCCESSION TO THE SOVERAIGNE POWER
• CHAPTER XX. OF DOMINION PATERNALL AND DESPOTICALL
• CHAPTER XXI. OF THE LIBERTY OF SUBJECTS
• CHAPTER XXII. OF SYSTEMES SUBJECT, POLITICALL, AND PRIVATE
• CHAPTER XXIII. OF THE PUBLIQUE MINISTERS OF SOVERAIGN POWER
• CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE NUTRITION, AND PROCREATION OF A COMMON-WEALTH
• CHAPTER XXV. OF COUNSELL
• CHAPTER XXVI. OF CIVILL LAWES
• CHAPTER XXVII. OF CRIMES, EXCUSES, AND EXTENUATIONS
• CHAPTER XXVIII. OF PUNISHMENTS, AND REWARDS
• CHAPTER XXIX. OF THOSE THINGS THAT WEAKEN, OR TEND TO THE DISSOLUTION OF A COMMON-WEALTH
• CHAPTER XXX. OF THE OFFICE OF THE SOVERAIGN REPRESENTATIVE
• CHAPTER XXXI. OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD BY NATURE
• PART III. OF A CHRISTIAN COMMON-WEALTH
• CHAPTER XXXIII. OF THE NUMBER, ANTIQUITY, SCOPE, AUTHORITY, AND INTERPRETERS OF THE BOOKS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
• CHAPTER XXXIV. OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF SPIRIT, ANGEL, AND INSPIRATION IN THE BOOKS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
• CHAPTER XXXV. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF KINGDOME OF GOD, OF HOLY, SACRED, AND SACRAMENT
• CHAPTER XXXVI. OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND OF PROPHETS
• CHAPTER XXXVII. OF MIRACLES, AND THEIR USE
• CHAPTER XXXVIII. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF ETERNALL LIFE, HELL, SALVATION, THE WORLD TO COME, AND REDEMPTION
• CHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF THE WORD CHURCH
• CHAPTER XL. OF THE RIGHTS OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD, IN ABRAHAM, MOSES, HIGH PRIESTS, AND THE KINGS OF JUDAH
• CHAPTER XLI. OF THE OFFICE OF OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR
• CHAPTER XLII. OF POWER ECCLESIASTICALL
• CHAPTER XLIII. OF WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR A MANS RECEPTION INTO THE KINGDOME OF HEAVEN
• PART IV. OF THE KINDOME OF DARKNESSE
• CHAPTER XLV. OF DAEMONOLOGY, AND OTHER RELIQUES OF THE RELIGION OF THE GENTILES
• CHAPTER XLVI. OF DARKNESSE FROM VAIN PHILOSOPHY, AND FABULOUS TRADITIONS
• A REVIEW, AND CONCLUSION