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Leviathan

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes · 1651

4 chapters · 503 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

Part I — Of Man

~219 min · 102 pages

Part II — Of Commonwealth

~301 min · 143 pages

Part III — Of a Christian Commonwealth

~368 min · 179 pages

Part IV — Of the Kingdom of Darkness

~166 min · 79 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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