Hobbes, Thomas

Written in 1651, this is a political tract describinga compact between the ruled and a sovereign authoity that would protect the citizenry and secure peace.

A reprint of the author's work of political philosophy addressing the idea that obedience to authority, especially in the form of a large bureaucracy such as the political state, is really just a natural response of human nature.

Contains the political treatise crafted by the famous political philosopher.

Provides an exploration of human nature and a discussion of the factors that lead to warfare and strife. Includes textual notes and a bibliography.

The general division of man's natural faculties -- the cause of sense -- of imagination and the kinds thereof -- of the several kinds of discursion of the mind -- of names, reasoning, and discourse of the tongue -- of a knowledge, opinion, and relief -- of delight and pain/good and eveil -- of the pleasurers of the senses/of honour -- of the passions of the mind -- of the difference between men in these discerning faculty and the cause. -- what imaginations and passions men have, at the names of things supernatural -- how by deliberation from passions proceed men's actions -- how by language men work upon each other's minds -- of the estate and right of nature -- of the divesting natural right by gift and covenant -- some of the laws of nature -- other laws of nature -- a confirmation of the same out of the word of God -- of the necessity and definition of a body politic -- of the requisites to the constitution of a commonwealth -- of the three sorts of commonwealth -- of the power of masters -- of the power of fathers, and of patrimonial kingdom -- the incommodities of several sorts of government compared -- that subjects are not bound to follow their private judgments in controversies of religion -- that subjects are not bound to follow the judgment of any authorities in controversies of religion which is not dependent on the sovereign power -- of the causes of rebellion -- of the duty of them that have sovereign power -- of the nature and kinds of laws.

Presents an English translation of the Latin text in which seventeenth-century English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes explores the philosophical elements of the true citizen, and includes a glossary of Latin terms, a chronology, a bibliography, and an expository introduction.

Thomas Hobbes argues that human beings are above all concerned with their own individual desires and fears. He states that conflict of man against man can only be avoided through a compact to enforce peace. This involves giving up some of our natural freedom to a sovereign power which will enforce the laws of peace on all citizens.