Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Softcover

Pufendorf, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521359805 ISBN 13: 9780521359801

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Samuel Pufendorf is one of the most important moral and political philosophers of the seventeenth century. His theory, which builds on Grotius and Hobbes, was immediately recognized as a classic and taken up by writers as diverse as Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Smith. Over the past twenty years there has been a renaissance of Pufendorf scholarship. On the Duty of Man and Citizen is Pufendorf's own epitome of his monumental On the Law of Nature and of Nations, and it served as a basic text in European universities throughout the Enlightenment. This edition has a lucid and historically sensitive translation by Michael Silverthorne, the first since the early twentieth century. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its context, summarizes the main arguments, surveys recent literature on Pufendorf, and shows how Pufendorf transformed natural law theory into an independent discipline of juristic political philosophy that dominated reflection on politics until Kant.

About this title

Book Description:

Samuel Pufendorf is one of the most important moral and political philosophers of the seventeenth century. This abridgement of his monumental On the Law of Nature and of Nations has served as a basic text in European universities throughout the enlightenment.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521359805
• ISBN 13: 9780521359801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Tully James