For words are wise men’s counters,—they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.

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.

Bibliographic Record

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Introductory Note
Introduction

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

Harvard Classics, Vol. 34, Part 5

Of Man Being the First Part of Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

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