Leviathan: The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and CivillThomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government and society and argues for strong central governance and the rule of an absolute sovereign as the way to avoid civil war and chaos. |
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... Punishment (by which fastned to the seat of the Soveraignty, every joynt and member is moved to performe his duty) are the Nerves, that do the same in the Body Naturall; The Wealth and Riches of all the particular members, are the ...
... Punishment (by which fastned to the seat of the Soveraignty, every joynt and member is moved to performe his duty) are the Nerves, that do the same in the Body Naturall; The Wealth and Riches of all the particular members, are the ...
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... punish; and that Just, of the impunity and approbation whereof they can produce an Example, or (as the Lawyers which onely use the false measure of Justice barbarously call it) a Precedent; like little children, that have no other rule ...
... punish; and that Just, of the impunity and approbation whereof they can produce an Example, or (as the Lawyers which onely use the false measure of Justice barbarously call it) a Precedent; like little children, that have no other rule ...
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... beyond hope of justification, fall also upon the Supreme Authority, for feare of punishment, or shame of receiving pardon. Credulity From Ignorance Of Nature Ignorance of naturall causes disposeth a man to Credulity, so 148.
... beyond hope of justification, fall also upon the Supreme Authority, for feare of punishment, or shame of receiving pardon. Credulity From Ignorance Of Nature Ignorance of naturall causes disposeth a man to Credulity, so 148.
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... Punishment; which being Force, a man is not obliged not to resist. The same is also true, of the Accusation of those, by whose Condemnation a man falls into misery; as of a Father, Wife, or Benefactor. For the Testimony of such an ...
... Punishment; which being Force, a man is not obliged not to resist. The same is also true, of the Accusation of those, by whose Condemnation a man falls into misery; as of a Father, Wife, or Benefactor. For the Testimony of such an ...
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... punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their Covenant; and to make good that Propriety, which by mutuall Contract men acquire, in recompence of the universall Right they abandon: and such power there is none ...
... punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their Covenant; and to make good that Propriety, which by mutuall Contract men acquire, in recompence of the universall Right they abandon: and such power there is none ...
Contents
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Chapter XXV | 360 |
Chapter XXVI | 373 |
Chapter XXVII | 409 |
Chapter XXVIII | 437 |
Chapter XXIX | 453 |
Chapter XXX | 472 |
Chapter XXXI | 499 |
PART III OF A CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH | 520 |
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Chapter XVI | 229 |
PART II OF COMMONWEALTH | 238 |
Chapter XVII | 239 |
Chapter XVIII | 248 |
Chapter XIX | 265 |
Chapter XX | 283 |
Chapter XXI | 298 |
Chapter XXII | 317 |
Chapter XXIII | 339 |
Chapter XXIV | 348 |
Chapter XXXII | 521 |
Chapter XXXIII | 530 |
Chapter XXXIV | 549 |
Chapter XXXV | 570 |
Chapter XXXVI | 584 |
Chapter XXXVII | 610 |
Chapter XXXVIII | 623 |
Chapter XXXIX | 650 |
Chapter XL | 655 |
Chapter XLI | 674 |
Chapter XLII | 687 |
Chapter XLIII | 810 |
PART IV OF THE KINGDOME OF DARKNESSE | 835 |
Chapter XLIV | 836 |
Chapter XLV | 879 |
Chapter XLVI | 914 |
Chapter XLVII | 947 |
A Review and Conclusion | 965 |
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