LEVIATHAN
by
Thomas Hobbes
1651
<*> PART ONE: OF MAN (single text file - 243kb) 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 interior 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 X. Of power, worth, dignity, honor, 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 TWO: OF COMMONWEALTH (single text file - 392kb) 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 THREE: OF A CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH (single text file - 403kb) <*> PART FOUR: OF THE KINGDOME OF DARKNESS (single text file - 182kb)
