Peace is not given by nature: it has to be built by covenant.
Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
These records present Leviathan, De Cive and The Elements of Law. De Corpore, De Homine, Behemoth, the exchanges with Bramhall on liberty and necessity, the Dialogue on the common laws of England, the translations of Thucydides and Homer and the correspondence are not yet indexed; this is a selection, not a complete bibliography.
011640
Completed in May 1640 and dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, it circulated in manuscript during the quarrels over royal power that preceded the Long Parliament. Its two parts were printed separately in 1650 as Human Nature and De Corpore Politico; the first edition under the original title was published by Ferdinand Tönnies in 1889.
021642
Planned as the third section of his Elements of Philosophy, it was published first, in a small private printing in Paris in 1642, because the disputes before the civil war made its subject urgent. An enlarged edition with a new preface and explanatory notes appeared in Amsterdam in 1647, and an English version followed in 1651.
031651
Written in Paris after the execution of Charles I and published in London in 1651 by Andrew Crooke, with the famous engraved title page of a crowned giant made of many small bodies. Hobbes later published a revised Latin version in Amsterdam in 1668, with an appendix answering charges of heresy.