LeviathanLeviathan concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("the war of all against all") could only be averted by strong central government. |
Contents
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Of the Difference of Manners | 79 |
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Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative | 247 |
Of the Kingdom of God by Nature | 261 |
The Third Part Of a Christian Commonwealth | 271 |
Of the Signification of Spirit Angel and Inspiration | 286 |
Of the Signification in the Scripture of the Kingdom | 297 |
of the Word of God and of Prophets | 304 |
Of Miracles and their Use | 318 |
Of the Signification in Scripture of Eternal Life Hell | 325 |
Of other Laws of Nature | 113 |
The Second Part Of Commonwealth | 129 |
Of the several kinds of Commonwealth by Institution | 142 |
Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical | 151 |
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Of Systems Subject Political and Private | 169 |
Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power | 180 |
Of Civil Laws | 198 |
Of Crimes Excuses and Extenuations | 216 |
Of Punishments and Rewards | 229 |
Of those things that weaken or tend to the Dissolution | 237 |
Of the Signification in Scripture of the word Church | 339 |
Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour | 352 |
Of Power Ecclesiastical | 359 |
Of what is Necessary for a Mans Reception into | 424 |
The Fourth Part Of the Kingdom of Darkness | 437 |
Of Demonology and other Relics of the Religion | 460 |
Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous | 478 |
Of the Benefit proceeding from such Darkness and | 494 |
A Review and Conclusion | 503 |
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Page 452 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 299 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Page 455 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Page 328 - Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living : for all live unto him.
Page 371 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 408 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.