Leviathan

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Simon and Schuster, 2008 M06 30 - 512 páginas
Leviathan 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.
 

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Introduction
19
of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations
28
Of Reason and Science
41
Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse
56
Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge
69
Of the Difference of Manners
79
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87
13
98
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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159
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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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy. An Englishman, Hobbes was heavily influenced by his country's civil war and wrote his preeminent work, Leviathan, about the relationship between the individual and the government during that period. Hobbes was a scholar, phauthoilosopher, and the author of several works on political and religious philosophy.

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