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Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms & States of Europe (Paperback, New Ed)
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Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms & States of Europe (Paperback, New Ed)
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Samuel Pufendorf was a pivotal figure in the early German
Enlightenment and, along with Grotius, the great renewer of natural
law theory. His version of voluntarist natural law theory had a
major influence both on the European continent and in the
English-speaking world, particularly Scotland and America. "An
Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of
Europe" was first translated in 1695 but has been rare in English
since the late eighteenth century.Pufendorf's histories exhibit the
core notions of his natural law theory by recounting the
development and current, reciprocal relations of individual states
as collective social agents engaged in securing their own and,
thus, their members' interests, including self-preservation. Hence,
his histories essentially functioned as vehicles for philosophical
demonstration or justification. Moreover, by emphasizing empirical
details and legitimating (in principle) the de facto politics of
interest, these histories appealed strongly to the emerging
nation-states of early modern Europe, which sought ratification of
their external and internal actions, policies, and pedagogies. He
based his account on the respective country's own historians and
took care to describe its position from its own current and
historical perspectives. It was a novel and appealing approach to
political history, judging from the long and diverse publishing
record of the work.Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) was one of the most
important figures in early-modern political thought. An exact
contemporary of Locke and Spinoza, he transformed the natural law
theories of Grotius and Hobbes, developed striking ideas of
toleration and of the relationship between church and state, and
wrote extensive political histories and analyses of the
constitution of the German empire.Jodocus Crull (d. 1713/14) was a
German emigre to England, a medical man, and a translator and
writer.Michael J. Seidler is Professor of Philosophy at Western
Kentucky University.Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual
History at the University of Sussex, England.
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