Leviathan
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- 1651
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Introduction
8:28 -
I - Of Sense
4:46 -
II - Of Imagination
13:43 -
III - Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations
12:15 -
IV - Of Speech
23:39 -
V - Of Reason and Science
15:21 -
VI - Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which They are Expressed
23:50 -
VII - Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse
10:04 -
VIII - Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and Their Contrary Defects
24:20 -
IX - Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge
5:34 -
X - Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness
22:20 -
XI - Of the Difference of Manners
17:21 -
XII - Of Religion
28:07 -
XIII - Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
14:03 -
XIV - Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts
33:54 -
XV - Of Other Laws of Nature
41:51 -
XVI - Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated
13:52 -
XVII - Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth
10:50 -
XVIII - Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution
21:05 -
XIX - Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Sovereign Power
24:50 -
XX - Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical
20:50 -
XXI - Of the Liberty of Subjects
24:15 -
XXII - Of Systems Subject, Political and Private
30:41 -
XXIII - Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power
10:22 -
XXIV - Of the Nutrition and Procreation of a Commonwealth
14:10 -
XXV - Of Counsel
18:20 -
XXVI - Of Civil Laws
46:43 -
XXVII - Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
43:45 -
XXVIII - Of Punishments and Rewards
21:31 -
XXIX - Of Those Things that Weaken or Tend to the Dissolution of a Commonwealth
28:05 -
XXX - Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative
37:12 -
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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Book facts
- Author
- Thomas Hobbes
- First published
- 1651
- Reading time
- About 16 hours
- Pages
- 593
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
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