Leviathan

by Hobbes, Thomas; Curley, Edwin

• ISBN13: 9780872201774
• ISBN10: 0872201775
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

This new edition of Hobbe's masterpiece is uniquely suited to meet the needs of both student and scholar. It offers a brilliant introduction by Edwin Curley, modernised spelling and punctuation of the text, and a key annotative feature found in no other edition: the inclusion, along with historical and interpretive notes, of the most significant variants between the English version of 1651 and the Latin version of 1668. A glossary of seventeenth century English terms and indexes of persons, subjects, and scriptural passages help make this the most thoughtfully conceived edition of Leviathan available.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Hobbes' Leviathan	viii	(39)
Biographical Materials	xlvii	(24)
I. Chronology of the Life of Hobbes	xlviii	(6)
II. Hobbes' Verse Autobiography	liv	(10)
III. Excerpts from Hobbes' Prose Autobiography	lxiv	(1)
IV. Excerpts from Aubrey's Life of Hobbes	lxv	(6)
Bibliography	lxxi	(2)
Purposes and Features of This Edition	lxxiii	(3)
Acknowledgments	lxxvi
LEVIATHAN	1	(5)
Letter Dedicatory	1	(2)
The Introduction	3	(3)
PART I: OF MAN	6	(100)
i Of Sense	6	(1)
ii Of Imagination	7	(5)
iii Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations	12	(3)
iv Of Speech	15	(7)
v Of Reason, and Science	22	(5)
vi Of the Interiour Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions, and the Speeches by Which They Are Expressed	27	(8)
vii Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse	35	(3)
viii Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects	38	(9)
ix Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge	47	(2)
ix On the Classification of the Sciences (OL)	49	(1)
x Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthiness	50	(7)
xi Of the Difference of Manners	57	(6)
xii Of Religion	63	(11)
xiii Of the Natural Condition of Mankind, As Concerning Their Felicity, and Misery	74	(5)
xiv Of the First and Second Natural Laws and of Contracts	79	(10)
xv Of Other Laws of Nature	89	(12)
xvi Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated	101	(5)
PART II: OF COMMONWEALTH	106	(139)
xvii Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth	106	(4)
xviii Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution	110	(8)
xix Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution and of Succession to the Sovereign Power	118	(9)
xx Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical	127	(9)
xxi Of the Liberty of Subjects	136	(10)
xxii Of Systems Subject, Political, and Private	146	(9)
xxiii Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power	155	(4)
xxiv Of the Nutrition and Procreation of a Commonwealth	159	(6)
xxv Of Counsel	165	(7)
xxvi Of Civil Laws	172	(18)
xxvii Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations	190	(13)
xxviii Of Punishments and Rewards	203	(7)
xxix Of those things that Weaken or tend to the Dissolution of a Commonwealth	210	(9)
xxx Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative	219	(14)
xxxi Of the Kingdom of God by Nature	233	(12)
PART III: OF A CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH	245	(166)
xxxii Of the Principles of Christian Politics	245	(5)
xxxiii Of the Number, Antiquity, Scope, Authority, and Interpreters of the Books of Holy Scripture	250	(11)
xxxiv Of the Signification of Spirit, Angel, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture	261	(10)
xxxv Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament	271	(7)
xxxvi Of the Word of God, and of Prophets	278	(15)
xxxvii Of Miracles, and their Use	293	(8)
xxxviii Of the Signification in Scripture of Eternal Life, Hell, Salvation, The World to Come, and Redemption	301	(13)
xxxix Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church	314	(3)
xl Of the Rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the High-Priests, and the Kings Of Judah	317	(9)
xli Of the Office of our Blessed Saviour	326	(7)
xlii Of Power Ecclesiastical	333	(64)
xliii Of what is Necessary for a Man's Reception into the Kingdom of Heaven	397	(14)
PART IV: OF THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS	411	(78)
xliv Of Spiritual Darkness from Misinterpretation of Scripture	411	(24)
xlv Of Demonology and other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles	435	(18)
xlvi Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous Traditions	453	(15)
xlvi Of the Darkness from Vain Philosophy (OL)	468	(9)
xlvii Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness and to whom it accrueth	477	(7)
xlvii Of those who profited from this darkness (OL)	484	(5)
A Review and Conclusion	489	(9)
Latin Appendix	498	(51)
A Note Regarding Chapter xlii	549	(1)
Glossary	550	(10)
Index of Subjects	560	(13)
Index of Proper Names	573	(2)
Index of Biblical Citations	575