Hobbes: On the Citizen

by Thomas Hobbes , Edited by Richard Tuck , Michael Silverthorne

• ISBN13: 9780521437806
• ISBN10: 0521437806
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to be at least sanctioned by Hobbes himself. On the Citizen is written in a clear, straightforward, expository style, offering students a more digestible account of Hobbes' political thought than even Leviathan itself. This new translation is itself a very significant scholarly event.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Note on the translation

Key words

Principal events in Hobbes's life

Further reading

On the Citizen

Preface to the readers

1. On the state of man without civil society

2. On the natural law of contracts

3. On the other laws of nature

4. That the natural law is the divine law

5. On the causes and generation of a commonwealth

6. On the right of the Assembly of Man, who holds sovereign authority in the commonwealth

7. On the three kinds of commonwealth

democracy, aristocracy and monarchy

8. On the right of masters over slaves

9. On the rights of parents over children, and on the Patrimonial Kingdom

10. Comparison of the disadvantages of each of the three kinds of commonwealth

11. Passages and examples from holy scripture about the right of kingship, which appear to support our account

12. On the internal causes which tend to dissolve a commonwealth

13. On the duties of those who exercise sovereign power

14. On laws and sins

15. On the kingdom of God by nature

16. On the kingdom of God by the old agreement

17. On the kingdom of God by the new agreement

18. On what is necessary for entry into the Kingdom of heaven

Index.