Leviathan (1909 ed)
The 1909 edition of Hobbe’s best known work of political philosophy is the edition used by Michael Oakeshott in his discussion of Hobbe’s ideas in Hobbes on Civil Association (1937, 1975 Liberty Fund).
Hobbes’s Leviathan reprinted from the edition of 1651 with an Essay by the Late W.G. Pogson Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909).
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- Author: Thomas Hobbes
- Introduction: William George Pogson Smith
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Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF HOBBES AN ESSAY
- Hobbes and Descartes.
- TO MY MOST HONOR’D FRIEND Mr FRANCIS GODOLPHIN of Godolphin.
- The Contents of the Chapters.
- Errata.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [1]THE INTRODUCTION.
- Part I.: OF MAN.Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [3]
- CHAP. I.: Of Sense.
- CHAP. II.: Of Imagination.
- CHAP. III.: Of the Consequence or Trayne of Imaginations.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [12]CHAP. IV.: Of Speech.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [18]CHAP. V.: Of Reason, and Science.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [23]CHAP. VI.: Of the Interiour Beginnings of Voluntary Motions; commonly called the Passions. And the Speeches by which they are expressed.
- CHAP. VII.: Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse.
- CHAP. VIII.: Of the Vertues commonly called Intellectuall; and their contrary Defects.
- CHAP. IX.: Of the Severall Subjects of Knowledge.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [41]CHAP. X.: Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthinesse.
- CHAP. XI.: Of the difference of Manners.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [52]CHAP. XII.: Of Religion.
- CHAP. XIII.: Of the Naturall Condition of Mankind, as concerning their Felicity, and Misery.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [64]CHAP. XIV.: Of the first and second Naturall Lawes, and of Contracts.
- CHAP. XV.: Of other Lawes of Nature.
- CHAP. XVI.: Of Persons, Authors, and things Personated.
- Part II.: OF COMMON-WEALTH.Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [85]
- CHAP. XVII.: Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Common-Wealth.
- CHAP. XVIII.: Of the Rights of Soveraignes by Institution.
- CHAP. XIX.: Of the severall Kinds of Common-wealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Soveraigne Power.
- CHAP. XX.: Of Dominion Paternall, and Despoticall.
- CHAP. XXI.: Of the Liberty of Subjects.
- CHAP. XXII.: Of Systemes Subject, Politicall, and Private.
- CHAP. XXIII.: Of the Publique Ministers of Soveraign Power.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [127]CHAP. XXIV.: Of the Nutrition, and Procreation of a Common-wealth.
- CHAP. XXV.: Of Counsell.
- CHAP. XXVI.: Of Civill Lawes.
- CHAP. XXVII.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [151] Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations.
- CHAP. XXVIII.: Of Punishments, and Rewards.
- CHAP. XXIX.: Of those things that Weaken, or tend to the Dissolution of a Common-wealth.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [175]CHAP. XXX.: Of the Office of the Soveraign Representative.
- CHAP. XXXI.: Of the Kingdome of God by Nature.
- Part III.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [195]OF ACHRISTIAN COMMON-WEALTH.
- CHAP. XXXII.: Of the Principles of Christian Politiques.
- CHAP. XXXIII.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [199] Of the Number, Antiquity, Scope, Authority, and Interpreters of the Books of Holy Scripture.
- CHAP. XXXIV.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [207] Of the Signification of Spirit, Angel, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture.
- CHAP. XXXV.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [216] Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdome Of God, of Holy, SACRED, and Sacrament.
- CHAP. XXXVI.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [222] Of the Word of God, and of Prophets.
- CHAP. XXXVII.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [233] Of Miracles, and their Use.
- CHAP. XXXVIII.: Of the Signification in Scripture of Eternall Life, Hell, Salvation, The World to come, and Redemption.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [247]CHAP. XXXIX.: Of the signification in Scripture of the word Church.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [249]CHAP. XL.: Of the Rights of the Kingdome of God, in Abraham, Moses, the High Priests, and the Kings of Judah.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [261]CHAP. XLI.: Of the Office of our Blessed Saviour.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [267]CHAP. XLII.: Of Power Ecclesiasticall.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [321]CHAP. XLIII.: Of what is Necessary for a Mans Reception into the Kingdome of Heaven.
- Part IV.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [333]OF THE KINGDOME OF DARKNESSE.
- CHAP. XLIV.: Of Spirituall Darknesse from Misinterpretation of Scripture.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [352]CHAP. XLV.: Of DÆmonology, and other Reliques of the Religion of the Gentiles.
- CHAP. XLVI.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [367]Of Darknesse from Vain Philosophy, and Fabulous Traditions.
- CHAP. XLVII.: Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [381]Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darknesse, and to whom it accreweth.
- Edition: Hobbes1651; Page: [389]A REVIEW, AND CONCLUSION.
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