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Leviathan
Leviathan
or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
by
Thomas Hobbes
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WisehouseClassics
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
Cover photo and frontispiece of the 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, by Abraham Bosse.
Executive Editor Sam Vaseghi
Published by Wisehouse Classics–Sweden
ISBN 978-91-7637-143-5
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©Wisehouse 2016–Sweden
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Contents
Chapter III: Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations
Chapter V: Of Reason and Science
Chapter VII: Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse
Chapter VIII: Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and Their Contrary Defects
Chapter IX: Of the Several Subject of Knowledge
Chapter X: Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness
Chapter XI: Of the Difference of Manners
Chapter XIII: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
Chapter XIV: Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts
Chapter XV: Of Other Laws of Nature
Chapter XVI: Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated
The Second Part: Of Commonwealth
Chapter XVII: Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth
Chapter XVIII: Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution
Chapter XIX: Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Sovereign Power
Chapter XX: Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical
Chapter XXI: Of the Liberty of Subjects
Chapter XXII: Of Systems Subject Political and Private
Chapter XXIII: Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power
Chapter XXIV: Of the Nutrition and Procreation of a Commonwealth
Chapter XXV: Of Counsel
Chapter XXVI: Of Civil Laws
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 Commonwealth
Chapter XXX: Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative
Chapter XXXI: Of the Kingdom of God by Nature
The Third Part: Of a Christian Commonwealth
Chapter XXXII: Of the Principles of Christian Politics
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 Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament
Chapter XXXVI: Of the Word of God, and of Prophets
