The Collected Political Works: Leviathan + De Cive (On the Citizen) + The Elements of Law + Behemoth, or The Long Parliament (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Sovereignty, Civil War, and LawBy Thomas Hobbes
Length47h 19m
About this audiobook
This collected volume brings together Hobbes's major political writings, tracing the full architecture of his civil philosophy from the analytic foundations of The Elements of Law and De Cive to the monumental synthesis of Leviathan and the historical diagnosis of Behemoth. Written in a prose at once geometrical, polemical, and often startlingly vivid, these works situate sovereignty, fear, covenant, religion, and obedience within the fractured intellectual world of seventeenth-century Europe, where civil war and theological controversy made political order an urgent philosophical problem. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), educated at Oxford and long connected to aristocratic and scientific circles, wrote under the pressure of England's constitutional crisis, the Civil War, and the collapse of traditional authority. His encounters with classical history, emerging mechanistic science, and continental thinkers helped shape his ambition to make politics a rigorous science grounded in human nature, appetite, motion, and self-preservation. This collection is indispensable for readers seeking to understand the origins of modern political theory. It is especially recommended to students of philosophy, history, law, and theology, as well as anyone interested in the enduring question of how liberty, authority, and peace can coexist.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length47 hrs 19 mins
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Publish dateNov 10, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Robert's Rules of Order (Annotated)
26Chapter 21: Of the Three Sorts of Commonwealth
2The Collected Political Works: Leviathan + De Cive (On the Citizen) + The Elements of Law + Behemoth, or The Long Parliament
27Chapter 22: Of the Power of Masters
3The Elements of Law
28Chapter 23: Of the Power of Fathers, and of Patrimonial Kingdom
4PART I
29Chapter 24: The Incommodities of Several Sorts of Government Compared
5Chapter 1: The General Division of Man's Natural Faculties
30Chapter 25: That Subjects are not Bound to Follow Their Private Judgments in Controversies of Religion
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6Chapter 2: The Cause of Sense
31Chapter 26: That Subjects are not bound to follow the Judgment of any Authorities in Controversies of Religion which is not Dependent on the Sovereign Power
7Chapter 3: Of Imagination and the Kinds Thereof
32Chapter 27: Of the Causes of Rebellion
8Chapter 4: Of the Several Kinds of Discursion of the Mind
33Chapter 28: Of the Duty of Them That Have Sovereign Power
9Chapter 5: Of Names, Reasoning, and Discourse of the Tongue
34Chapter 29: Of the Nature and Kinds of Laws
10Chapter 6: Of a Knowledge, Opinion and Relief
35De Cive (On the Citizen)
11Chapter 7: Of Delight and Pain; Good and Evil
36Author's Preface
12Chapter 8: Of the Pleasures of the Senses; Of Honour
37Chapter I: Of the state of men without Civill Society
13Chapter 9: Of the Passions of the Mind
38Chapter II: Of the Law of Nature concerning Contracts
14Chapter 10: Of the Difference Between Men In These Discerning Faculty and the Cause
39Chapter III: Of the other Lawes of Nature
15Chapter 11: What Imaginations and Passions Men Have, at the Names of Things Supernatural
40Chapter IV: That the Law of Nature is a Divine Law
16Chapter 12: How by Deliberation From Passions Proceed Men's Actions
41Chapter V: Of the causes, and first begining of civill Government
17Chapter 13: How by Language Men Work Upon Each Other's Minds
42Chapter VI: Of the right of him, whether Counsell, or one Man onely, who hath the supreme power in the City
18Chapter 14: Of the Estate and Right of Nature
43Chapter VII: Of the three kindes of Government, Democracy, Aristocracy, Monarchie
19Chapter 15: Of the Divesting Natural Right by Gift and Covenant
44Chapter VIII: Of the Rights of Lords over their Servant
20Chapter 16: Some of the Laws of Nature
45Chapter IX: Of the right of Parents over their children and of hereditary Government
21Chapter 17: Other Laws of Nature
46Chapter X: A comparison between 3. kinds of government, according to their severall inconveniences
22Chapter 18: A Confirmation of the Same Out of The Word of God
47Chapter XI: Places and Examples of Scripture of the Rights of Government agreeable to what hath been said before
23Chapter 19: Of the Necessity and Definition of a Body Politic
48Chapter XII: Of the internal causes, tending to the dissolution of any Government
24PART II
49Chapter XIII: Concerning the duties of them who bear Rule
25Chapter 20: Of the Requisites to the Constitution of a Commonwealth
50Chapter XIV: Of Lawes and Trespasses
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