Leviathan / by Thomas Hobbes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679, author.

Series:

First Avenue classics.

First Avenue classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 682 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : First Avenue Editions, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, [2018]

Summary:

During the upheaval of the English Civil War in the seventeenth century, political philosopher Thomas Hobbes composed his masterwork, Leviathan . It was first published in 1651, between the trial and execution of King Charles I and the creation of the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. In his book, Hobbes argued that a strong and undivided central government was necessary to maintain societal order. By accepting the rule of a sovereign authority figure--which Hobbes called the "Leviathan" after the biblical sea monster--humans could avoid being ruled instead by self-interest and fear, and so escape humankind's natural state of war and violence. This is an unabridged version of Hobbes's most famous philosophical text, which established social contract theory and remained influential in political philosophy for centuries.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Information

Table of Contents

The Introduction

PART 1: Of Man

I: Of Sense

II: Of Imagination

III: Of the Consequence or Trayne of Imaginations

IV: Of Speech

V: Of Reason, and Science

VI Of the Interiour Beginnings of Voluntary Motions

VII: Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse

VIII: Of the Vertues Commonly Called Intellectual

and Their Contrary Defects

IX: Of the Severall Subjects of Knowledge

X: Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness

XI: Of the Difference of Manners

XII: Of Religion

XIII: Of the Naturall Condition of Mankind, as Concerning Their Felicity, and Misery

XIV: Of the First and Second Naturall Lawes, and of Contracts

XV: Of Other Lawes of Nature

XVI: Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated

PART 2: Of Common-Wealth

XVII: Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Common-wealth

XVIII: Of the Rights of Soveraignes by Institution

XIX: Of the Severall Kinds of Common-Wealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Soveraigne Power

XX: Of Dominion Paternall and Despoticall

XXI: Of the Liberty of Subjects

XXII: Of Systemes Subject, Politicall, and Private

XXIII: Of the Publique Ministers of Soveraign Power

XXIV: Of the Nutrition, and Procreation of a Common-Wealth

XXV: Of Counsell

XXVI: Of Civill Lawes

XXVII: Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations

XXVIII: Of Punishments, and Rewards

XXIX: Of Those Things That Weaken, or Tend to the Dissolution of a Common-Wealth

XXX: Of the Office of the Soveraign Representative

XXXI: Of the Kingdome of God by Nature

PART 3: Of a Christian Common-Wealth

XXXII: Of the Principles of Christian Politiques

XXXIII Of the Number, Antiquity, Scope, Authority, and Interpreters of the Books of Holy Scriptures.

XXXIV: Of the Signification of Spirit, Angel, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture

XXXV: Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdome of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament

XXXVI: Of the Word of God, and of Prophets

XXXVII: Of Miracles, and Their Use

XXXVIII: Of the Signification in Scripture Of Eternall Life, Hell, Salvation, The World To Come, and Redemption

XXXIX: Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church

XL: Of the Rights of the Kingdome of God, in Abraham, Moses, High Priests, and the Kings of Judah

XLI: Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour

XLII: Of Power Ecclesiasticall

XLIII Of What is Necessary for a Mans Reception into the Kingdome of Heaven

XLIV: Of Spirituall Darknesse from Misinterpretation of Scripture

XLV: Of Daemonology, and Other Reliques of the Religion of the Gentiles

XLVI: Of Darknesse from Vain Philosophy, and Fabulous Traditions

XLVII: Of The Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darknesse, and to Whom It Accreweth

A Review, and Conclusion

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781512486193 (Electronic Book)

OCLC:

1044945605