LeviathanThe Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes's answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry: he argues from first principles to human nature to politics. |
Contents
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Of Religion 52 | |
Of the Naturall Condition 60 | |
Of the first and second 64 | |
Contract | |
Of Commonwealth | |
Of the Publique Ministers of Soveraign Power 123 | |
Of the Nutrition and Procreation of a Commonwealth 127 | |
Of Counsell 131 | |
Of Civill Lawes 136 | |
Of Crimes Excuses and Extenuations 151 | |
Of Punishments and Rewards 161 | |
Of those things that Weaken or tend to the Dissolution of 167 | |
a Commonwealth | |
Of Persons Authors and 80 | |
things personated | |
OF COMMONWEALTH 17 Of the Causes Generation and Definition of a Common 85 | |
Of the Rights of Soveraignes by Institution 88 | |
Of severall Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution and of 94 | |
Of Dominion Paternall and Despoticall 101 | |
Of the Liberty of Subjects 107 | |
Of Systemes Subject Politicall and Private 115 | |
Of the Office of the Soveraign Representative 175 | |
Of a Christian Commonwealth | |
Of the Kingdome of Darknesse | |
Of Darknesse from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous 367 | |
Traditions | |
A Review and Conclusion | |
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