The Thomas Hobbes Page


Major Works
Oxford World's Classics publishes two volumes of Hobbes' work, including Leviathan. The latter work is also available from Penguin and from Norton as a Norton Critical Edition, edited by Richard E. Flathman and David Johnston.
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Translated from Greek.
Aristotle's Art of Rhetorique ( 1637 ). Translation from Greek.
De cive ( 1642 ). English version published in 1651 as Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society. On Line
Humane Nature; or, The Fundamental Elements of Policy ( 1650 ). This work was first published with the following work as The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic in 1889. Under the latter title it is available in Oxford World's Classics. On Line
De corpore politico; or, The Elements of Law ( 1650 ).
Leviathan ( 1651 ). On Line
De corpore ( 1655 ). English version published in 1656 as .
De homine ( 1658 ).
The Odyssey ( 1674 ). Translated from Greek.
The Iliad ( 1675 ). Translated from Greek.
Behemoth ( 1681 ). One work among several Tracts published in 1681 - 1682.

About Hobbes
John Aubrey, Brief Lives ( 1813 ). This account of Hobbes is very nearly contemporary, its author having lived, 1626 - 1697. The Lives is one of the gems of late seventeenth century literature. On Line
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, " A Survey of Mr Hobbes His Leviathan " On Line.
Short Biographical Sketch
Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 - 1679 )
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy TH Entry

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