HOBBES

ON BODY

INDEX

Introduction to Hobbes’s On Body

On Body, Part I (from the beginning)
On Body, Parts II–IV (from the beginning)

Epistle Dedicatory
To the Reader

PART 1: CALCULATION, OR LOGIC

Chapter 1: Philosophy
Chapter 2: Words
Chapter 3: The Proposition [extract]
Chapter 4: The Syllogism [extract]
Chapter 5: Erring, falsehood, and sophistries
Chapter 6: Method

PART II: FIRST PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 7: Space and time
Chapter 8: Body and accident
Chapter 9: Cause and effect
Chapter 10: Power and action
Chapter 11: The same and the different
Chapter 12: Quantity [extract]

PART III: THE RATIOS OF MOTIONS AND MAGNITUDES

Chapter 15: Motion and Conation [extracts]
Chapter 20: The Dimensions of the Circle [extract]
Chapter 22: Other Kinds of Motions [extracts]

PART IV: PHYSICS, OR THE PHENOMENA OF NATURE

Chapter 25: Animal Sensation and Motion
Chapter 26: The Universe and the Heavens [extract]
Chapter 27: Light, Heat, and Colours [extract]
Chapter 29: Sound, Smell, Taste, and Touch [extract]
Chapter 30: Gravity [extract]

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Footnotes


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