Samuel Pufendorf

The Political Writings of Samuel Pufendorf

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

2 367 kr

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The seventeenth-century philosopher Samuel Pufendorf was one of the most widely read natural lawyers of the pre-Kantian era. This volume presents the basic arguments and fundamental themes of his political and moral thought. Selections from the texts of Pufendorf's two major works, Elements of Universal Jurisprudence and The Law of Nature and Nations, have been brought together to make Pufendorf's moral and political thought more accessible.The selections appear here in a new English translation which far exceeds what is currently available. The translator has constructed a rendering of the Latin that is sophisticated but clear, and the volume has been prepared with an emphasis on continuity and readability. The editor has included a substantive introduction intended to acquaint readers with Pufendorf and his political thought and to indicate why his work has relevance for contemporary political discourse.

Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law

AvSamuel Pufendorf,James Tully

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

331 kr

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On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf's succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory he developed in his monumental classic On the Law of Nature and Nations (1672). His theory was the most influential natural law philosophy of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. He advanced a compelling reply to Grotius and Hobbes, and in doing so, set the intellectual problems for theorists such as Locke, Hutcheson, Hume, Rousseau, and Smith. In the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, Pufendorf sets forth a classic justification of the early modern enlightened state and of the proper relations of moral and political subjection to it. This lucid and historically sensitive translation by Michael Silverthorne, (a classicist and a specialist in Roman Law and early modern political thought) is the first since the early twentieth century. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its seventeenth-century context, summarises the main arguments, surveys recent literature on Pufendorf, and shows how Pufendorf transformed natural law theory into an independent discipline of juristic political philosophy which dominated reflection on politics until Kant.

Of the Nature & Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society

AvSamuel Pufendorf,Samuel von Pufendorfm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

326 kr

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Of the Nature & Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society

AvSamuel Pufendorf,Samuel von Pufendorfm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

145 kr

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Divine Feudal Law

Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented

AvSamuel Pufendorf,Samuel von Pufendorfm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

258 kr

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Divine Feudal Law

Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented

AvSamuel Pufendorf,Samuel von Pufendorfm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

145 kr

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Of the Law of Nature & Nations

In Five Volumes

AvSamuel Pufendorf,Knud Haakonssen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

1 300 kr

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Pufendorf provided a comprehensive system of society, law, and government based on a theory of human nature. Eschewing contemporary theological ideas of human perfection and other-worldly beatitude, he founded his natural law on the need for sociability in this world. While paying great respect to Grotius as the founder of a modern, enlightened natural law, Pufendorf criticised his remaining 'scholasticism'. Similarly, he learned from Hobbes but rejected the reduction of natural law to individual self-interest. Pufendorf wanted to transform natural law by getting rid of its metaphysical foundations, but he retained its function as a moral basis for civil law and the state. OF THE LAW OF NATURE AND NATIONS was Pufendorf's magnum opus. Despite its enormous size, the work was translated into nine languages. Together with the shorter textbook version, 'The Whole Duty of Man' -- published in thirteen languages -- Pufendorf's work influenced generations of students across Europe and America.

Nyhet

Of the Law of Nature & Nations

In Five Volumes

AvSamuel Pufendorf,Knud Haakonssen

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

847 kr

Kommande

Pufendorf provided a comprehensive system of society, law, and government based on a theory of human nature. Eschewing contemporary theological ideas of human perfection and other-worldly beatitude, he founded his natural law on the need for sociability in this world. While paying great respect to Grotius as the founder of a modern, enlightened natural law, Pufendorf criticised his remaining 'scholasticism'. Similarly, he learned from Hobbes but rejected the reduction of natural law to individual self-interest. Pufendorf wanted to transform natural law by getting rid of its metaphysical foundations, but he retained its function as a moral basis for civil law and the state. OF THE LAW OF NATURE AND NATIONS was Pufendorf's magnum opus. Despite its enormous size, the work was translated into nine languages. Together with the shorter textbook version, 'The Whole Duty of Man' -- published in thirteen languages -- Pufendorf's work influenced generations of students across Europe and America.