The elements of law, natural and politic
Subtitle: part I, Human nature, part II, De corpore politico ; with Three lives
By: Thomas Hobbes ; edited with an introduction by J.C.A. Gaskin.
Contributors: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; Gaskin, J. C. A.
Series: World's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Natural law; Political science -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: De corpore politico.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
This work was originally published in 1650 as two separate books, Human nature, and De corpore politico. Human nature contained the first 13 chapters, De Corpore politico contained chapters 14 thru 19 of the first work, and chapters 20 thru 29. The present edition considers chapters 1 thru 19 as part 1, Human nature, and chapters 20 thru 29 as part 2, De corpore politico.
Included in this work are chapters from Hobbes' De corpore, translations of His Verse life, and Prose life, and an abstract of John Aubrey's Brief life.