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Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (Paperback)
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Samuel Pufendorf's seminal work, "The Whole Duty of Man, According
to the Law of Nature" (first published in Latin in 1673), was among
the first to suggest a purely conventional basis for natural law.
Rejecting scholasticism's metaphysical theories, Pufendorf found
the source of natural law in humanity's need to cultivate
sociability. At the same time, he distanced himself from Hobbes's
deduction of such needs from self-interest. The result was a
sophisticated theory of the conventional character of man's social
persona and of all political institutions.Pufendorf wrote this work
to make his insights accessible to a wide range of readers,
especially university students. As ministers, teachers, and public
servants, they would have to struggle with issues of sovereignty
and of the relationship between church and state that dominated the
new state system of Europe in the aftermath of the Peace of
Westphalia (1648)."The Whole Duty" was first translated into
English in 1691. The fourth edition was significantly revised--by
anonymous editors--to include a great deal of the very important
editorial material from Jean Barbeyrac's French editions. This was
reproduced in the fifth edition from 1735 that is republished here.
The English translation provides a fascinating insight into the
transplantation of Pufendorf's political theory from a German
absolutist milieu to an English parliamentarian one.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.Jean Barbeyrac (1674-1744) was a Huguenot refugee who taught
natural law successively in Berlin, Lausanne, and Amsterdam, and
edited and translated into French the major natural law works of
Grotius, Pufendorf, and Cumberland.Andrew Tooke (1673-1732) was
headmaster of Chaterhouse School and professor of geometry at
Gresham College, London.Ian Hunter is Australian Professorial
Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses,
University of Queensland.David Saunders is Professor Emeritus in
the Faculty of Arts at Griffith University.Knud Haakonssen is
Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex,
England.
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