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BIBLIOGRAPHY.

I.

On the Life of Hobbes.

1. T. HOBBES; or dictated by Hobbes to T. Rymer, T. Hobbes Malmesburiensis Vita (written in Latin).

2. R. BLACKBOURNE, Vitae Hobbianae Auctarium (written in Latin).

3. T. HOBBES, Thomae Hobbes Malmesburiensis Vita Carmine Expressa (written in Latin verse), 1679–80. [The above accounts of the life of Hobbes were published together in 1681, by R. Blackbourne. They are all contained in Wm. Molesworth's edition of Hobbes's Latin Works referred to below, Vol. I.]

- 4. J. AUBREY, Life of Th. Hobbes of Malmesbury, printed in his Letters, and Lives of Eminent Men, 1813.

5. G. C. ROBERTSON, Hobbes, Philadelphia and Edinburgh, 1886. ✓ 6. F. TÖNNIES, Hobbes, Leben und Lehre, Stuttgart, 1896.

II.

Works of Hobbes.

1. GUL. MOLESWORTH, Thomae Hobbes Malmesburiensis Opera Philosophica quae Latine scripsit omnia in unum corpus nunc primum collecta, Londini, 1839.

2. SIR WM. MOLESWORTH, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury; now first collected and edited by Sir William Molesworth, Bart., London, 1841.

3. For information concerning the various early editions of the individual works of Hobbes, refer to the Vitae Hobbianae Auctarium, by R. Blackbourne, Latin Works, Vol. I., pp. lxv ff.

4. For a list of the various translations of individual works of Bibliography appended to G. C. Hobbes in the Encyclopædia

Hobbes, consult the
Robertson's article

Britannica, 9th ed.

5. The ethical and political philosophy of Hobbes is contained mainly in the following works:

De Cive, which appeared later under the title of Philosophical Rudiments concerning Government and Society.

✔ Human Nature; or, The Fundamental Elements of Policy.. De Corpore Politico; or, The Elements of Law, Moral and Politic.

✔ Leviathan; or, the Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil.

Other works bearing on his ethical and political philosophy are: De Homine.

Of Liberty and Necessity.

Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance.

Dialogue of the Common Laws.

Behemoth: The History of the Causes of the Civil Wars of England, and of the Counsels and Artifices by which they were carried on from the year 1640 to 1660.

III.

Expository and Critical Works.

For a list of such works published shortly after the appearance of Hobbes's Political Treatises, consult Molesworth's edition of the Latin Works, Vol. I., pp. xii-lxxx. Other expository and critical works are as follows :

1. Sir R. Filmer, Observations upon Mr. Hobbes's Leviathan,

etc., 1652.

2. T. TENISON, The Creed of Mr. Hobbes, examined in a feigned Conference between him and a Student of Divinity,

London, 1670-71.

3. J. EACHARD, Mr. Hobbes's State of Nature considered in a Dialogue between Philautus and Timothy, London, 1672;

also, Some Opinions of Mr. Hobbes considered in a Second Dialogue, London, 1673.

4. R. CUMBERLAND, De Legibus Naturae Disquisitio Philosophica, etc., London, 1672. English ed. by J. Maxwell,

London, 1714-15.

✓ 5. E. HIDE (Lord Clarendon), Brief Survey of the dangerous and pernicious Errors to Church and State in Mr. Hobbes's book entitled Leviathan, London, 1674.

6. J. BRAMHALL, Castigations of Mr. Hobbes, etc.; also, The Catching of Leviathan, Works, Dublin, 1676.

Works

published in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology.

7. R. CUDWORTH, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, London, 1678; also, Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality, London, 1731.

8. A. A. COOPER (Lord Shaftesbury), Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times, Vol. II., 1711. London, 1714-15.

9. J. BUTLER, Sermons, London, 1726.

10. S. CLARKE, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, etc.; also, A Discourse concerning the unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation, Works, Dublin, 1734. II. WM. WARBURTON, Divine Legation of Moses, London, 1738; with Hurd's Preface, 10th ed., London, 1846. 12. JAMES MACKINTOSH, Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy, chiefly during the 17th and 18th Centuries, American ed., Philadelphia, 1832, § IV.

13. HENRY HALLAM, Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 1839, Vol. III., chap. 4.

14. B. DISRAELI, Miscellanies of Literature, New York, 1841, Vol. II., pp. 247-294.

15. Lambert WELTHYSEN, De principiis juris et decori, dissertatio epistolica, continens apologiam pro tractatu clarissimi Hobbesii de Cive, Amstelodami, 1851.

16. WM. WHEWELL, History of Moral Philosophy in England, London, 1852, Lect. II.

17. ROBERT BLAKEY, The History of Political Literature, London, 1855, Vol. II., §3, chap. 2.

18. PAUL JANET, Histoire de la Philosophie Moral et Politique, Paris, 1860, Tome II., Livre 4, chaps. 1 and 2.

19. TH. JOUFFROY, Introduction to Ethics, trans. by W. H. Channing, Boston, 1867, Lect. XI.

20. A. BAIN, Mental and Moral Philosophy, London, 1868, pp. 543-556.

21. John Hunt, Religious Thought in England, etc., London, 1870, Vol. I., chap. VI.

22. HENRY CALDERWOOD, Hand-Book of Moral Philosophy, London, 1872, Div. II., chap. 2.

✔23. JOHN TULLOCH, Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh and London, 1872, Vol. II., pp. 25-30; also pp. 293299.

24. FRANCIS LIEBER, Manual of Political Ethics, Philadelphia and London, 1875, Vol. I., Bk. II., chap. 8.

25. SIR H. S. MAINE, Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, London, 1875, Lects. XII. and XIII.

26. T. D. WOOLSEY, Political Science; or, The State, etc., New
York, 1878, Vol. I., Pt. II., chap. 1, § 62.

27. HOLLAND, Elements of Jurisprudence, Oxford, 1880.
28. SIR F. POLLOCK, Spinoza, His Life and Philosophy, London,
1880, chap. X.; also, An Introduction to the History of
the Science of Politics, London and New York, 1890,
Pts. II. and III.

29. G. S. MORRIS, British Thought and Thinkers, Chicago, 1880,

chap. VI.

30. L. CARRAN, La Morale Utilitaire, Paris, Pt. I., Lvr. I., § 3,

chap. I.

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✔31. F. JODL, Geschichte der Ethik in der Neueren Philosophie, Stuttgart, 1882, I. Band, IV. Cap.

32. J. K. BLUNTSCHLI, The Theory of the State, trans. by D. G. Ritchie and others, Oxford, 1885, Bk. IV., chaps. 6 and 9.

33. J. MARTINEAU, Types of Ethical Theory, 2d ed., Oxford M and New York, 1886, Vol. II., Bk. II., chap. 1.

34. W. L. COURTNEY, Constructive Ethics, London, 1886, Pt. II.,

Bk. I., chap. 2.

35. G. C. ROBERTSON, Hobbes (Blackwood's Phil. Classics), Edinburgh, 1886; also, Article on Hobbes in Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. XII.

36. H. SIDGWICKS, Outlines of the History of Ethics, 2d ed., London and New York, 1888, pp. 162-169.

37. F. TÖNNIES, Preface and Critical Notes to Hobbes's The Elements of Law, Natural and Political, etc., with extracts from unpublished MSS. of Hobbes, London, 1888; also Hobbes, Leben und Lehre, Stuttgart, 1896.

38. J. BONAR, Philosophy and Political Economy in some of their Historical Relations, London and New York, 1893, Bk. II., chap. 3, and other references.

39. D. G. RITCHIE, Darwin and Hegel, London and New York, 1893, chaps. VII. and VIII.; also, various references in Natural Rights, London and New York, 1895.

40. G. LYON, La Philosophie de Hobbes, Paris, 1893.

41. WILLOUGHBY, The State, New York, 1896, chaps. IV. and V. 42. J. WATSON, Hedonistic Theories, Glasgow, London, and New York, 1895, chap. IV.

IV.

The following works on the History of Philosophy may be consulted with advantage:

1. BUHLE, Geschichte der Neueren Philosophie, Göttingen, 1802,

Vol. III., pp. 223-325.

2. J. D. MORREL, History of Modern Philosophy, 2d ed., London, 1847.

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