How many chapters are in the Leviathan course?

The Leviathan course has 27 chapters, each with its own lessons and topics.

How many lessons are in the Leviathan course?

There are 154 lessons across the course, and you can ask your 24/7 tutor about any of them.

Can I see what the Leviathan course covers before I start?

Yes. The full curriculum is listed on this page, beginning with "OF SENSE".

Do I get a certificate for the Leviathan course?

Yes. Finishing the course earns a personal Cavua certificate of completion.

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Leviathan

Name: Leviathan
Availability: LimitedAvailability
Author: Cavua

by Thomas Hobbes · 1651 · 27 chapters · 24/7 tutor

Social contract, sovereignty, and political order.

27Chapters

154Lessons

563Topics

Certificate of completion included

This course was produced by Cavua from a public-domain text.

What you'll learn

Skills this course leaves you with.

Explain Hobbes’s account of sense, imagination, and reasoning as foundations for knowledge
Analyze the role of speech, names, and language in shaping understanding and error
Describe the passions, voluntary motion, and their influence on human action
Evaluate Hobbes’s concepts of power, dignity, honour, and worth
Interpret the relationship between prudence, science, belief, and judgment in Leviathan
Assess how Hobbes connects human manners and desires to civil obedience and conflict

Curriculum

The full table of contents.

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Chapters: 27
Lessons: 154
Topics: 563

- 01Origin of sense and sensible qualities
- 02Scholastic doctrine of species

- 01The Third Law of Nature: keeping covenants
- 02Justice, injustice, and property under commonwealth
- 03Justice not contrary to reason
- 01Justice, injustice, and covenant-breaking
- 01Keeping covenant as a law of nature
- 02Covenants not discharged by the vice of the person to whom made
- 03Justice of men and justice of actions
- 01Justice of manners and justice of actions
- 02Nothing done by consent can be injury
- 03Commutative justice and distributive justice
- 01The Fourth Law of Nature, Gratitude
- 02Mutuall accommodation, or Compleasance
- 03Facility To Pardon
- 04In Revenges, Men Respect Onely The Future Good
- 01Pardon and revenge for future good
- 02Against Contumely
- 03Against Pride
- 04Against Arrogance
- 01Equity and distributive justice
- 02Equal use of things common
- 03Lot, primogeniture, and first seizing
- 04Safe conduct for mediators
- 05Submission to arbitrement
- 01Arbitration, impartial judges, and witnesses
- 02Rule for examining the laws of nature
- 01Law of nature in foro interno and externo
- 02Eternal and easy laws of nature
- 03Natural law as true moral philosophy
- 01Theorems of reason as laws of nature

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01How many chapters are in the Leviathan course?
The Leviathan course has 27 chapters, each with its own lessons and topics.
02How many lessons are in the Leviathan course?
There are 154 lessons across the course, and you can ask your 24/7 tutor about any of them.
03Can I see what the Leviathan course covers before I start?
Yes. The full curriculum is listed on this page, beginning with "OF SENSE".
04Do I get a certificate for the Leviathan course?
Yes. Finishing the course earns a personal Cavua certificate of completion.

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Skills this course leaves you with.

The full table of contents.

OF SENSE

OF IMAGINATION

OF THE CONSEQUENCE OR TRAYNE OF IMAGINATIONS

OF SPEECH

OF REASON, AND SCIENCE.

OF THE INTERIOUR BEGINNINGS OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS COMMONLY CALLED THE PASSIONS, AND THE SPEECHES BY WHICH THEY ARE

OF THE ENDS OR RESOLUTIONS OF DISCOURSE

OF THE VERTUES COMMONLY CALLED INTELLECTUAL, AND THEIR CONTRARY DEFECTS

OF THE SEVERALL SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE

OF POWER, WORTH, DIGNITY, HONOUR AND WORTHINESS

OF THE DIFFERENCE OF MANNERS

OF RELIGION

OF THE NATURALL CONDITION OF MANKIND, AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY, AND MISERY

OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURALL LAWES, AND OF CONTRACTS

OF OTHER LAWES OF NATURE

OF PERSONS, AUTHORS, AND THINGS PERSONATED

OF THE CAUSES, GENERATION, AND DEFINITION OF A COMMON-WEALTH

OF THE RIGHTS OF SOVERAIGNES BY INSTITUTION

OF THE SEVERALL KINDS OF COMMON-WEALTH BY INSTITUTION, AND OF SUCCESSION TO THE SOVERAIGNE POWER

OF DOMINION PATERNALL AND DESPOTICALL

OF THE LIBERTY OF SUBJECTS

OF SYSTEMES SUBJECT, POLITICALL, AND PRIVATE

OF THE PUBLIQUE MINISTERS OF SOVERAIGN POWER

OF THE NUTRITION, AND PROCREATION OF A COMMON-WEALTH

OF COUNSELL

OF CIVILL LAWES

OF CRIMES, EXCUSES, AND EXTENUATIONS

About this course

01How many chapters are in the Leviathan course?

02How many lessons are in the Leviathan course?

03Can I see what the Leviathan course covers before I start?

04Do I get a certificate for the Leviathan course?

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