Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Hobbes's Philosophical Intention -- The Medicinal Reinterpretation -- Hobbes's Rejection of Antiquity -- The Critique of Ancient Moral Philosophy -- Critique of Ancient Metaphysics -- Hobbes's Introduction to Leviathan -- The Conceptual Development of Hobbes's Philosophy -- The Early Writings -- The Mature Writings -- The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom -- 2 Hobbes's Philosophy of Nature -- Bodies -- Digression: The Historical Backdrop -- Hobbes's Natural Philosophy -- The Early Natural Philosophy -- Hobbes's Mature Natural Philosophy -- Space -- Imaginary Space -- Real Space -- Body as Phenomenon -- Hobbes, Leibniz, and Some Observations from Hegel -- 3 The Liberation from Natural Necessity -- The Generation of Voluntary Motion -- Language and Understanding -- 4 The Passions -- Self-Preservation -- The Development of Hobbes's Account -- The Elements of Law: Life as a Race -- The Leviathan Account of the Passions -- Desire and Aversion -- Joy and Grief -- Love and Hate -- The Influence of Descartes -- The Dialectic of Desire -- Curiosity: The Indefatigability of Desire -- 5 Hobbes's Doctrine of Natural Equality -- Hobbes's Arguments for Natural Equality -- De Corpore Politico -- De Cive -- Leviathan -- The Function of the Doctrine of Equality -- 6 Political Theory -- Hobbes's Earlier Political Theory -- Leviathan: The Mediation of Right and Law -- What the Sovereign Must Be -- The Liberties of Subjects -- The Unity of Political, Moral, and Scientific Wisdom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.