Leviathan

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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. 
 Contents: 
 Of Man 
 Of Sense 
 Of Imagination 
 Of the Consequence or Train of Imagination 
 Of Speech 
 Of Reason and Science 
 Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse 
 Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and Their Contrary Defects 
 Of the Several Subject of Knowledge 
 Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness 
 Of the Difference of Manners 
 Of Religion 
 Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts 
 Of Other Laws of Nature 
 Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated 
 Of Commonwealth 
 Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth 
 Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution 
 Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical 
 Of the Liberty of Subjects 
 Of Systems Subject Political and Private 
 Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power 
 Of Counsel 
 Of Civil Laws 
 Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations 
 Of Punishments and Rewards 
 Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative 
 Of the Kingdom of God by Nature 
 Of a Christian Commonwealth 
 Of the Principles of Christian Politics 
 Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament 
 Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church 
 Of the Rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the High Priests, and the Kings of Judah 
 Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour 
 Of Power Ecclesiastical 
 Of What Is Necessary for a Man's Reception into the Kingdom of Heaven 
 Of the Kingdom of Darkness 
 Of Spiritual Darkness from Misinterpretation of Scripture 
 Of Demonology and Other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles 
 Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous Traditions 
 Of the Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darkness, and to Whom It Accrueth

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