| For words are wise men’s counters,—they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. |
| —The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. iv. |
| Thomas Hobbes |
Harvard Classics, Vol. 34, Part 5
Of Man Being the First Part of Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
This first part of Hobbes’s revolutionary tome centers on the analogy of the physical body to the body politic and would fundamentally influence every theorist of the modern era.
Contents
| NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001 |
- Of Sense
- Of Imagination
- Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations
- Of Speech
- Of Reason and Science
- Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which They Are Expressed
- Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse
- Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
- Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge
- Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthiness
- Of the Difference of Manners
- Of Religion
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
- Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts
- Of Other Laws of Nature
- Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated