The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 02 (of 11)
Thomas Hobbes · en
1. How law differs from counsel. 2. How from covenant. 3. How from
right. 4. Division of laws into divine and human: the divine
into natural and positive; and the natural into the laws of
single men and of nations. 5. The division of human, that is to
say, of civil laws into sacred and secular. 6. Into distributive
and vindicative. 7. That distributive and vindicative are not
species, but parts of the laws. 8. All law is supposed to have a
penalty annexed to it. 9. The precepts of the decalogue of
honouring parents, of murder, adultery, theft, false witness,
are civil laws. 10. It is impossible to command aught by the
civil law contrary to the law of nature. 11. It is essential to
a law, both that itself and also the lawgiver be known. 12.
Whence the lawgiver comes to be known. 13. Publishing and
interpretation are necessary to the knowledge of a law. 14. The
division of the civil law into written and unwritten. 15. The
natural laws are not written laws; neither are the wise
sentences of lawyers nor custom laws of themselves, but by the
consent of the supreme power. 16. What the word sin, most
largely taken, signifies. 17. The definition of sin. 18. The
difference between a sin of infirmity and malice. 19. Under what
kind of sin atheism is contained. 20. What treason is. 21. That
by treason not the civil, but the natural laws are broken. 22.
And that therefore it is to be punished not by the right of
dominion, but by the right of war. 23. That obedience is not
rightly distinguished into active and passive.
[Sidenote: How law differs from counsel.]