De Cive

De Cive

Thomas Hobbes, english philosopher (1588-1679)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- DEDICATION

-03- THE AUTHORS PREFACE TO THE READER

-04- PHILOSOPHICALL ELEMENTS OF A TRUE CITIZEN

-05- CHAPTER I. OF THE STATE OF MEN WITHOUT CIVILL SOCIETY

-06- CHAPTER II. OF THE LAW OF NATURE CONCERNING CONTRACTS

-07- CHAPTER III. OF THE OTHER LAWES OF NATURE

-08- CHAPTER IV. THAT THE LAW OF NATURE IS A DIVINE LAW

-09- DOMINION

-10- CHAPTER V. OF THE CAUSES, AND FIRST BEGINING OF CIVILL GOVERNMENT

-11- CHAPTER VI. OF THE RIGHT OF HIM, WHETHER COUNSELL, OR ONE MAN ONELY, WHO HATH THE SUPREME POWER IN THE CITY

-12- CHAPTER VII. OF THE THREE KINDES OF GOVERNMENT, DEMOCRACY, ARISTOCRACY, MONARCHIE

-13- CHAPTER VIII. OF THE RIGHTS OF LORDS OVER THEIR SERVANT

-14- CHAPTER IX. OF THE RIGHT OF PARENTS OVER THEIR CHILDREN AND OF HEREDITARY GOVERNMENT

-15- CHAPTER X. A COMPARISON BETWEEN 3 KINDS OF GOVERNMENT, ACCORDING TO THEIR SEVERALL INCONVENIENCES

-16- CHAPTER XI. PLACES AND EXAMPLES OF SCRIPTURE OF THE RIGHTS OF GOVERNMENT AGREEABLE TO WHAT HATH BEEN SAID BEFORE

-17- CHAPTER XII. OF THE INTERNAL CAUSES, TENDING TO THE DISSOLUTION OF ANY GOVERNMENT

-18- CHAPTER XIII. CONCERNING THE DUTIES OF THEM WHO BEAR RULE

-19- CHAPTER XIV. OF LAWES AND TRESPASSES

-20- RELIGION

-21- CHAPTER XV. OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD, BY NATURE

-22- CHAPTER XVI. OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD UNDER THE OLD COVENANT

-23- CHAPTER XVII. OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD BY THE NEW COVENANT

-24- CHAPTER XVIII. CONCERNING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NECESSARY FOR OUR ENTRANCE INTO THE KINGDOME OF HEAVEN