Body, Man, and Citizen

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.