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

By:

Samuel Pufendorf

Format:

Paperback

Series:

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

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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.

Release date Australia

July 26th, 1991

Author

Samuel Pufendorf

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributors

Edited by James Tully
Translated by Michael Silverthorne

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

index, bibliography

Imprint

Cambridge University Press

Pages

236

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Series

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

Dimensions

138x216x14

ISBN-13

9780521359801

Product ID

2124070

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