Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics) - Hardcover
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Unlike their biased eighteenth-century forebears, Messrs. Hunter and Saunders are careful and meticulous. In their many detailed footnotes, they point to the disparities between the original Latin and the English translation. Their introduction provides a short but beautifully clear account of Pufendorf's natural law theory, of Barbeyrac's reception and modification of that theory, and the context of Tooke's translation...an admirable part of Liberty Fund's handsome Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series. Jacqueline Broad
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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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- ISBN 13 9780865973749
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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. XVIII, 381 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - In The Whole Duty of Man (1691), first published in Latin in 1673 as De officio hominis etcivis, Pufendorf elaborates his conception of ethics, which separates civil duties from religious hopes. Unlike many Christian political theologians of the seventeenth century, Pufendorf refused to ground his natural law ethics in the ideal of human perfection or holiness; rather, he grounded them in the need for sociability, which he regarded as simply a means to an end - that is, human self-preservation and civil peace. Like Grotius and Hobbes, Pufendorf was responding to the religious wars that wracked early modern Europe by constructing a version of natural law capable of defending the civil state against the religious and moral delegitimation wielded by international Catholicism and Protestant zealots. -- Born in Saxony in 1632, the son of a Lutheran pastor, Pufendorf was among the first to suggest a purely conventional basis for natural law, and, according to Ian Hunter and David Saunders, "Pufendorf occupies the same rank in the history of European culture as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant." This edition of The Whole Duty of Man also includes the first translation into English of three essays by the famous eighteenth-century Pufendorf commentator and translator Jean Barbeyrac. These essays, which consist of Barbeyrac s commentary on Leibniz s criticism of the De officio, in addition to two of his own discourses on the relation between natural and civil law, "offer a unique insight into the motives governing the reception of the De officio into the Huguenot and English contexts." -- The separation of civil governance and religious worship is the basis for Pufen-dorf s unique theory of a strong state committed to private religious freedoms. Although this new idea was, write Hunter and Saunders, "responsible for the work s controversial nature," it was also well suited to reviving a beleaguered Europe that was emerging from years of bitter religious civil strife. ISBN 9780865973749 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 743 16,5 x 3,2 x 23,5 cm, Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1194258
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