Leviathan
- Year
- 1651
- Field
- Philosophy
- Licence
- Public domain (Project Gutenberg, US)
- Source
- gutenberg
- Length
- about 212,788 words in 59 sections
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By Thomas Hobbes
1651
LEVIATHAN OR THE MATTER, FORME, & POWER OF A COMMON-WEALTH ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVILL
Contents
- LEVIATHAN · 952 words
- CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS · THE FIRST PART · OF MAN · INTRODUCTION · 1. OF SENSE · 2. OF IMAGINATION · 3. OF THE CONSEQUENCES OR TRAIN OF IMAGINATIONS · 4. OF SPEECH · 5. OF REASON AND SCIENCE · 20 words
- 7. OF THE ENDS OR RESOLUTIONS OF DISCOURSE · 11 words
- 9. OF THE SEVERALL SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE · 10. OF POWER, WORTH, DIGNITY, HONOUR, AND WORTHINESSE · 11. OF THE DIFFERENCE OF MANNERS · 12. OF RELIGION · 13 words
- 14. OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURALL LAWES, AND OF CONTRACT · 15. OF OTHER LAWES OF NATURE · 16. OF PERSONS, AUTHORS, AND THINGS PERSONATED · THE SECOND PART · OF COMMON-WEALTH · 17. OF THE CAUSES, GENERATION, AND DEFINITION OF A COMMON-WEALTH · 18. OF THE RIGHTS OF SOVERAIGNES BY INSTITUTION · 15 words
- 20. OF DOMINION PATERNALL, AND DESPOTICALL · 21. OF THE LIBERTY OF SUBJECTS · 22. OF SYSTEMES SUBJECT, POLITICALL, AND PRIVATE · 23. OF THE PUBLIQUE MINISTERS OF SOVERAIGN POWER · 24. OF THE NUTRITION, AND PROCREATION OF A COMMON-WEALTH · 25. OF COUNSELL · 26. OF CIVILL LAWES · 27. OF CRIMES, EXCUSES, AND EXTENUATIONS · 28. OF PUNISHMENTS, AND REWARDS · 14 words
- 30. OF THE OFFICE OF THE SOVERAIGN REPRESENTATIVE · 31. OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD BY NATURE · THE THIRD PART · OF A CHRISTIAN COMMON-WEALTH · 32. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN POLITIQUES · 46 words
- 36. OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND OF PROPHETS · 37. OF MIRACLES, AND THEIR USE · 17 words
- 39. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF THE WORD CHURCH · 20 words
- 41. OF THE OFFICE OF OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR · 42. OF POWER ECCLESIASTICALL · 13 words
- THE FOURTH PART · OF THE KINGDOME OF DARKNESSE · 44. OF SPIRITUALL DARKNESSE FROM MISINTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE · 45. OF DAEMONOLOGY, AND OTHER RELIQUES OF THE RELIGION OF THE GENTILES · 46. OF DARKNESSE FROM VAINE PHILOSOPHY, AND FABULOUS TRADITIONS · 13 words
- 48. A REVIEW AND CONCLUSION · THE INTRODUCTION · 823 words
- PART I. OF MAN · CHAPTER I. OF SENSE · 683 words
- CHAPTER II. OF IMAGINATION · 2,226 words
- CHAPTER III. OF THE CONSEQUENCE OR TRAYNE OF IMAGINATIONS · 1,865 words
- CHAPTER IV. OF SPEECH · 3,255 words
- CHAPTER V. OF REASON, AND SCIENCE. · 2,595 words
- CHAPTER VI. OF THE INTERIOUR BEGINNINGS OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS · 3,662 words
- CHAPTER VII. OF THE ENDS OR RESOLUTIONS OF DISCOURSE · 5,463 words
- CHAPTER IX. OF THE SEVERALL SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE · 287 words
- PHILOSOPHIA PRIMA · 21 words
- GEOMETRY ARITHMETIQUE · 32 words
- ASTRONOMY GEOGRAPHY · 42 words
- METEOROLOGY · 38 words
- SCIOGRAPHY · 8 words
- ASTROLOGY · 77 words
- OPTIQUES · 4 words
- MUSIQUE · 22 words
- ETHIQUES · 9 words
- POETRY · 3 words
- RHETORIQUE · 3 words
- LOGIQUE · 57 words
- CHAPTER X. OF POWER, WORTH, DIGNITY, HONOUR AND WORTHINESS · 3,048 words
- CHAPTER XI. OF THE DIFFERENCE OF MANNERS · 2,710 words
- CHAPTER XII. OF RELIGION · 6,491 words
- CHAPTER XIV. OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURALL LAWES, AND OF CONTRACTS · 4,356 words
- CHAPTER XV. OF OTHER LAWES OF NATURE · 5,177 words
- CHAPTER XVI. OF PERSONS, AUTHORS, AND THINGS PERSONATED · 1,637 words
- PART II. OF COMMON-WEALTH · 1,784 words
- CHAPTER XVIII. OF THE RIGHTS OF SOVERAIGNES BY INSTITUTION · 7,548 words
- CHAPTER XX. OF DOMINION PATERNALL AND DESPOTICALL · 3,311 words
- CHAPTER XXI. OF THE LIBERTY OF SUBJECTS · 4,215 words
- CHAPTER XXII. OF SYSTEMES SUBJECT, POLITICALL, AND PRIVATE · 4,736 words
- CHAPTER XXIII. OF THE PUBLIQUE MINISTERS OF SOVERAIGN POWER · 1,735 words
- CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE NUTRITION, AND PROCREATION OF A COMMON-WEALTH · 2,388 words
- CHAPTER XXV. OF COUNSELL · 2,907 words
- CHAPTER XXVI. OF CIVILL LAWES · 8,064 words
- CHAPTER XXVII. OF CRIMES, EXCUSES, AND EXTENUATIONS · 5,761 words
- CHAPTER XXVIII. OF PUNISHMENTS, AND REWARDS · 7,309 words
- CHAPTER XXX. OF THE OFFICE OF THE SOVERAIGN REPRESENTATIVE · 6,158 words
- CHAPTER XXXI. OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD BY NATURE · 4,297 words
- PART III. OF A CHRISTIAN COMMON-WEALTH · CHAPTER XXXII. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN POLITIQUES · 14,128 words
- CHAPTER XXXVI. OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND OF PROPHETS · 6,295 words
- CHAPTER XXXVII. OF MIRACLES, AND THEIR USE · 9,266 words
- CHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF THE WORD CHURCH · 5,290 words
- CHAPTER XLI. OF THE OFFICE OF OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR · 3,107 words
- CHAPTER XLII. OF POWER ECCLESIASTICALL · 35,510 words
- PART IV. OF THE KINGDOME OF DARKNESSE · 29,337 words
- A REVIEW, AND CONCLUSION · 3,914 words