One Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Hobbes’s Career And Philosophical Development
6. Beginnings 21
7. Leviathan and Behemoth 37
8. The Encyclopedic Character of Hobbes’s Philosophy
9. Science in the Service of Peace 57
10. Natural Philosophy and the Theory of Knowledge 77
11. Language, Reason, and Science 89
12. An Anthropology of the Individual 109
13. An Anthropology of the Social 121
14. Legitimating the State 135
15. Law 159
16. Religion and the Church 175
17. An Excursus 193
18. History 207
19. The Influence of Hobbes
20. From His Age to Our Own 217
21. Chronology of Hobbes’s Life and Work 233
22. Bibliography 237
23. Name Index 251
24. Subject Index 255