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Introduction -- The scope of the discussion -- The approach to "Leviathan" -- Biographical -- Hobbes; reputation -- The situation -- The analysis of language -- The rejection of authority -- Conceptual revision -- Part I: method -- Language and logic -- Sense and imagination -- Naming and signifying -- Universals -- Accidents -- Truth -- Definitions -- Verification -- Scientific method -- A self-evidence theory of mathematics (in De Corpore) -- A conventionalist account of science (in The Elements of Law) -- A hypthetico-deductive theory of physics (in De Corpore) -- A mathematical paradigm -- A demonstrative science of politics (in Leviathan) -- Summary of Part I -- Part II: man -- Human nature -- Egoism and hedonism -- Mechanistic materialism and the passions -- An hypothesis about pleasure (in De Corpore) -- A muddle about pleasure (in The Elements of Law) -- A neutral analysis (in Leviathan) -- The particular passions -- "Good" and "evil" -- Deliberation and the will -- Apparent good -- Two concepts of felicity -- Power and glory -- Life as a race -- "All the pleasure and jollity of the mind" -- Power and glory in Leviathan -- "This inference, made from the passions" -- Part III: society -- The state of nature -- The primary sources of quarrel -- Anticipatory violence -- Liberty -- The right of every man to every thing -- "The terrible enemy of nature, death" -- Natural Law -- The fundamental law of nature -- The renunciation of rights -- Covenants -- Obligation, compulsion and necessitation -- The precepts of reason -- "The true and only moral philosophy" -- Political science -- Authorisation -- The institution of a commonwealth -- An unconditional majority formula -- The absolute sovereign -- God's prophet -- Equity -- Conclusion -- Short English Bibliography -- Index.