De Cive

Thomas Hobbes: DE CIVE

 ELEMENTORUM PHILOSOPHIAE SECTIO TERTIA DE CIVE. Parisiis, 1642

ELEMENTA PHILOSOPHICA de CIVE. Auctore THOM. HOBBES Malmesburiensi.  Amsterodami: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1647.

ELEMENS PHILOSOPHIQUES DU CITOYEN : TRAICTÉ POLITIQUE, où les fondements de la societé civile sont découverts / par Thomas Hobbes et traduicts en françois par un de ses amis [Sorbière, Samuel]. A AMSTERDAM : de l’mprimerie de Jean Blaeu, 1649.

Philosophicall rudiments CONCERNING government and society. OR, A DISSERTATION concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment and subjection. By THO: HOBBES. LONDON. Printed by J.G. for R. ROYSTON, at the Angel in Ivie-lane. 1651. [Unapproved translation by Charles Cotton].

Editions: 

  • De Cive: The Latin Version. A Critical Edition by  Howard Warrender. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
  • DE CIVE: The English Version. Entitled in the first edition PHILOSOPHICALL RUDIMENTS CONCERNING GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY. A Critical Edition by  Howard Warrender. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press 1983.
  • On the Citizen. Modern translation of De Cive by M. Silverthorne. Edited by R. Tuck. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998.