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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

NonfictionPhilosophyabout 23 h 15 min of listening

Hobbes explores a vision of the ideal state, in which people cede certain freedoms to a sovereign power in exchange for security and stability.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Dedication
  3. Introduction
  4. Leviathan
  5. Part I: Of Man
  6. I: Of Sense
  7. II: Of Imagination
  8. III: Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations
  9. IV: Of Speech
  10. V: Of Reason and Science
  11. VI: Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions; Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which They Are Expressed
  12. VII: Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse
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  1. VIII: Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
  2. IX: Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge
  3. X: Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthiness
  4. XI: Of the Difference of Manners
  5. XII: Of Religion
  6. XIII: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
  7. XIV: Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts
  8. XV: Of Other Laws of Nature
  9. XVI: Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated
  10. Part II: Of Commonwealth
  11. XVII: Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth
  12. XVIII: Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution
  13. XIX: Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Sovereign Power
  14. XX: Of Dominion Paternal, and Despotical
  15. XXI: Of the Liberty of Subjects
  16. XXII: Of Systems Subject, Political, and Private
  17. XXIII: Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power
  18. XXIV: Of the Nutrition and Procreation of a Commonwealth
  19. XXV: Of Counsel
  20. XXVI: Of Civil Laws
  21. XXVII: Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
  22. XXVIII: Of Punishments and Rewards
  23. XXIX: Of Those Things That Weaken, or Tend to the Dissolution of a Commonwealth
  24. XXX: Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative
  25. XXXI: Of the Kingdom of God by Nature
  26. Part III: Of a Christian Commonwealth
  27. XXXII: Of the Principles of Christian Politics
  28. XXXIII: Of the Number, Antiquity, Scope, Authority, and Interpreters of the Books of Holy Scripture
  29. XXXIV: Of the Signification of Spirit, Angel, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture
  30. XXXV: Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament
  31. XXXVI: Of the Word of God, and of Prophets
  32. XXXVII: Of Miracles, and Their Use
  33. XXXVIII: Of the Signification in Scripture of Eternal Life, Hell, Salvation, the World to Come, and Redemption
  34. XXXIX: Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church
  35. XL: Of the Rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the High Priests, and the Kings of Judah
  36. XLI: Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour
  37. XLII: Of Power Ecclesiastical
  38. XLIII: Of What Is Necessary for a Man’s Reception Into the Kingdom of Heaven
  39. Part IV: Of the Kingdom of Darkness
  40. XLIV: Of Spiritual Darkness, from Misinterpretation of Scripture
  41. XLV: Of Demonology, and Other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles
  42. XLVI: Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous Traditions
  43. XLVII: Of the Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darkness, and to Whom It Accrueth
  44. A Review, and Conclusion
  45. List of Illustrations
  46. Colophon
  47. Uncopyright

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