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Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms & States of Europe (Hardcover, Revised)
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Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms & States of Europe (Hardcover, Revised)
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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 & 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 emphasising 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 pedagogues. 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.
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