POLS270 Lecture Outline for Hobbes

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I. Background on Hobbes

1. Film The Renaissance: The Prince (part 2).

 

2. England in the 1600s.

The English Monarchy

3. Hobbes.

II. Leviathan

Introduction.

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THE FIRST PART: OF MAN

1.  Of Sense.

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2. Of Imagination.

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3. Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations.

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4. Of Speech.

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5. Of Reason and Science.

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6. Of the Passions and Speech.

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7. Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse.

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13. Concerning the Natural Condition of Mankind.

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14. Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts.

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15. Of Other Laws of Nature.

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16. Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated.

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THE SECOND PART: OF COMMONWEALTH

17. Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth.

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18. Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution.

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19. Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Sovereign Power.

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20. Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical.

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21. Of the Liberty of Subjects.

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22. Of systems Subject, Political, and Private.

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23. Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power.

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24. Of the Nutrition, and Procreation of a Commonwealth.

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25. Of Counsel.

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26. Of Civil Laws.

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27. Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations

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28. Of Punishments and Rewards

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29. Of Those Things that Weaken, or Tend to the Dissolution of a Commonwealth.

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Conclusion

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