Introduction to Hobbes' Leviathan

Biographical Materials

I. Chronology of the Life of Hobbes

II. Hobbes' Verse Autobiography

III. Excerpts from Hobbes' Prose Autobiography

IV. Excerpts from Aubrey's Life of Hobbes

Bibliography

Purposes and Features of This Edition

Acknowledgments

LEVIATHAN

Letter Dedicatory

The Introduction

PART I: OF MAN

i Of Sense

ii Of Imagination

iii Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations

iv Of Speech

v Of Reason, and Science

vi Of the Interiour Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions, and the Speeches by Which They Are Expressed

vii Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse

viii Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects

ix Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge

ix On the Classification of the Sciences (OL)

x Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthiness

xi Of the Difference of Manners

xii Of Religion

xiii Of the Natural Condition of Mankind, As Concerning Their Felicity, and Misery

xiv Of the First and Second Natural Laws and of Contracts

xv Of Other Laws of Nature

xvi Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated

PART II: OF COMMONWEALTH

xvii Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth

xviii Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution

xix Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution and of Succession to the Sovereign Power

xx Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical

xxi Of the Liberty of Subjects

xxii Of Systems Subject, Political, and Private

xxiii Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power

xxiv Of the Nutrition and Procreation of a Commonwealth

xxv Of Counsel

xxvi Of Civil Laws

xxvii Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations

xxviii Of Punishments and Rewards

xxix Of those things that Weaken or tend to the Dissolution of a Commonwealth

xxx Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative

xxxi Of the Kingdom of God by Nature

PART III: OF A CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH

xxxii Of the Principles of Christian Politics

xxxiii Of the Number, Antiquity, Scope, Authority, and Interpreters of the Books of Holy Scripture

xxxiv Of the Signification of Spirit, Angel, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture

xxxv Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament

xxxvi Of the Word of God, and of Prophets

xxxvii Of Miracles, and their Use

xxxviii Of the Signification in Scripture of Eternal Life, Hell, Salvation, The World to Come, and Redemption

xxxix Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church

xl Of the Rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the High-Priests, and the Kings Of Judah

xli Of the Office of our Blessed Saviour

xlii Of Power Ecclesiastical

xliii Of what is Necessary for a Man's Reception into the Kingdom of Heaven

PART IV: OF THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS

xliv Of Spiritual Darkness from Misinterpretation of Scripture

xlv Of Demonology and other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles

xlvi Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous Traditions

xlvi Of the Darkness from Vain Philosophy (OL)

xlvii Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness and to whom it accrueth

xlvii Of those who profited from this darkness (OL)

A Review and Conclusion

Latin Appendix

A Note Regarding Chapter xlii

Glossary

Index of Subjects

Index of Proper Names

Index of Biblical Citations