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Leviathan

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  1. Introduction

    8:28

  2. I - Of Sense

    4:46

  3. II - Of Imagination

    13:43

  4. III - Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations

    12:15

  5. IV - Of Speech

    23:39

  6. V - Of Reason and Science

    15:21

  7. VI - Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which They are Expressed

    23:50

  8. VII - Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse

    10:04

  9. VIII - Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and Their Contrary Defects

    24:20

  10. IX - Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge

    5:34

  11. X - Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness

    22:20

  12. XI - Of the Difference of Manners

    17:21

  13. XII - Of Religion

    28:07

  14. XIII - Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery

    14:03

  15. XIV - Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts

    33:54

  16. XV - Of Other Laws of Nature

    41:51

  17. XVI - Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated

    13:52

  18. XVII - Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth

    10:50

  19. XVIII - Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution

    21:05

  20. XIX - Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Sovereign Power

    24:50

  21. XX - Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical

    20:50

  22. XXI - Of the Liberty of Subjects

    24:15

  23. XXII - Of Systems Subject, Political and Private

    30:41

  24. XXIII - Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power

    10:22

  25. XXIV - Of the Nutrition and Procreation of a Commonwealth

    14:10

  26. XXV - Of Counsel

    18:20

  27. XXVI - Of Civil Laws

    46:43

  28. XXVII - Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations

    43:45

  29. XXVIII - Of Punishments and Rewards

    21:31

  30. XXIX - Of Those Things that Weaken or Tend to the Dissolution of a Commonwealth

    28:05

  31. XXX - Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative

    37:12

  32. XXXI - Of the Kingdom of God by Nature

    27:10

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Written amid the chaos of the English Civil War, Hobbes's masterwork argues that without a strong central authority human life descends into a 'war of all against all,' famously making existence 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' To escape this state of nature, people surrender their freedom to an absolute sovereign—the Leviathan—in exchange for peace and security. Rigorous, provocative, and grimly logical, it laid the foundations of modern political philosophy and the theory of the social contract. Still fiercely debated today, Leviathan is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand power, the state, and why we obey.

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher whose Leviathan is a founding work of modern political philosophy. His materialist, systematic thought profoundly shaped Western ideas of the state.

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First published
1651
Reading time
About 16 hours
Pages
593
Language
English
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