1. 'Of Man': the foundation of Hobbe's political argument -- 2. What is the cause of conflict in the state of nature? -- 3. The shortsightedness account of conflict and the laws of nature -- 4. The argument of absolute sovereignty -- 5. Authorizing the sovereign -- 6. Hobbe's social contract -- 7. The failure of Hobbe's social contract argument -- 8. Can Hobbe's argument be salvaged? -- 9. How the traditional social contract argument works
