Leviathan

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Simon and Schuster, 30.06.2008 - 512 Seiten
Leviathan concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.

Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("the war of all against all") could only be averted by strong central government.

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Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative
247
Of the Kingdom of God by Nature
261
The Third Part Of a Christian Commonwealth
271
Of the Signification of Spirit Angel and Inspiration
286
Of the Signification in the Scripture of the Kingdom
297
of the Word of God and of Prophets
304
Of Miracles and their Use
318
Of the Signification in Scripture of Eternal Life Hell
325

Of other Laws of Nature
113
The Second Part Of Commonwealth
129
Of the several kinds of Commonwealth by Institution
142
Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical
151
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159
Of Systems Subject Political and Private
169
Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power
180
Of Civil Laws
198
Of Crimes Excuses and Extenuations
216
Of Punishments and Rewards
229
Of those things that weaken or tend to the Dissolution
237
Of the Signification in Scripture of the word Church
339
Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour
352
Of Power Ecclesiastical
359
Of what is Necessary for a Mans Reception into
424
The Fourth Part Of the Kingdom of Darkness
437
Of Demonology and other Relics of the Religion
460
Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous
478
Of the Benefit proceeding from such Darkness and
494
A Review and Conclusion
503
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Seite 452 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Seite 299 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Seite 455 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Seite 328 - Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living : for all live unto him.
Seite 371 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Seite 408 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy. An Englishman, Hobbes was heavily influenced by his country's civil war and wrote his preeminent work, Leviathan, about the relationship between the individual and the government during that period. Hobbes was a scholar, phauthoilosopher, and the author of several works on political and religious philosophy.

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