Body, Man, and Citizen
About this book
The complete texts of Elements of Law (divided into three parts, the Little Treatise, Human Nature, and De Corpore Politico), Of Liberty and Necessity, Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England, and chapters one through six of De Corpore (the first section of Elements of Philosophy).Body, Man, and Citizen is a selection of the works of Thomas Hobbes which reveals the very heart of his philosophic conceptions: his theory of motion; his concept of man and state as machines--the one natural, the other artificial; his attacks upon what he considered to be restraint of the mind by theological absurdities; his pessimistic view of human nature and his belief that strong governmental powers were absolutely necessary to control the avarice of private interests.