Leviathan

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.

Contents:

Of Man

Of Sense

Of Imagination

Of the Consequence or Train of Imagination

Of Speech

Of Reason and Science

Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse

Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and Their Contrary Defects

Of the Several Subject of Knowledge

Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness

Of the Difference of Manners

Of Religion

Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts

Of Other Laws of Nature

Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated

Of Commonwealth

Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth

Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution

Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical

Of the Liberty of Subjects

Of Systems Subject Political and Private

Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power

Of Counsel

Of Civil Laws

Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations

Of Punishments and Rewards

Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative

Of the Kingdom of God by Nature

Of a Christian Commonwealth

Of the Principles of Christian Politics

Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament

Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church

Of the Rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the High Priests, and the Kings of Judah

Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour

Of Power Ecclesiastical

Of What Is Necessary for a Man's Reception into the Kingdom of Heaven

Of the Kingdom of Darkness

Of Spiritual Darkness from Misinterpretation of Scripture

Of Demonology and Other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles

Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous Traditions

Of the Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darkness, and to Whom It Accrueth