LEVIATHAN
Thomas Hobbes

INTRODUCTION

THE FIRST PART: Of Man

CHAPTER I: of sense  
 CHAPTER II: of imagination  
 CHAPTER III: of the consequence or train of imaginations  
 CHAPTER IV: of speech  
 CHAPTER V: of reason and science  
 CHAPTER VI: of the interior beginnings of voluntary motions, commonly called the passions; and the speeches by which they are expressed  
 CHAPTER VII: of the ends or resolutions of discourse  
 CHAPTER VIII: of the virtues commonly called intellectual; and their contrary defects  
 CHAPTER IX: of the several subject of knowledge  
 CHAPTER X: of power, worth, dignity, honour and worthiness  
 CHAPTER XI: of the difference of manners  
 CHAPTER XII: of religion  
 CHAPTER XIII: of the natural condition of mankind as concerning their felicity and misery  
 CHAPTER XIV: of the first and second natural laws, and of contracts  
 CHAPTER XV: of other laws of nature  
 CHAPTER XVI: of persons, authors, and things personated  

THE SECOND PART: Of Commonwealth  

CHAPTER XVII: of the causes, generation, and definition of a Commonwealth  
 CHAPTER XVIII: of the rights of sovereigns by institution  
 CHAPTER XIX: of the several kinds of Commonwealth by institution, and of succession to the sovereign power  
 CHAPTER XX: of dominion paternal and despotical  
 CHAPTER XXI: of the liberty of subjects  
 CHAPTER XXII: of systems subject political and private  
 CHAPTER XXIII: of the public ministers of sovereign power  
 CHAPTER XXIV: of the nutrition and procreation of a commonwealth  
CHAPTER XXV: of counsel  
 CHAPTER XXVI: of civil laws  
 CHAPTER XXVII: of crimes, excuses, and extenuations  
 CHAPTER XXVIII: of punishments and rewards  
 CHAPTER XXIX: of those things that weaken or tend to the dissolution of a commonwealth  
 CHAPTER XXX: of the office of the sovereign representative  
 CHAPTER XXXI: of the kingdom of God by nature  

THE THIRD PART: Of a Christian Commonwealth  

CHAPTER XXXII: of the principles of Christian politics  
 CHAPTER XXXIII: of the number, antiquity, scope, authority, and interpreters of the Books of Holy Scripture  
 CHAPTER XXXIV: of the signification of spirit, angel, and inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture  
 CHAPTER XXXV: of the signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament  
 CHAPTER XXXVI: of the Word of God, and of prophets  
 CHAPTER XXXVII: of miracles and their use  
 CHAPTER XXXVIII: of the signification in Scripture of eternal life, hell, salvation, the world to come, and redemption  
 CHAPTER XXXIX: of the signification in Scripture of the Word Church  
 CHAPTER XL: of the rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the high priests, and the Kings of Judah  
 CHAPTER XLI: of the office of Our Blessed Saviour  
 CHAPTER XLII: of power ecclesiastical  
 CHAPTER XLIII: of what is necessary for a man's reception into the Kingdom of Heaven  

THE FOURTH PART: Of the Kingdom of Darkness  

CHAPTER XLIV: of spiritual darkness from misinterpretation of scripture  
 CHAPTER XLV: of demonology and other relics of the religion of the gentiles  
 CHAPTER XLVI: of darkness from vain philosophy and fabulous traditions  
 CHAPTER XLVII: of the benefit that proceedeth from such darkness, and to whom it accrueth