Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law

Samuel Pufendorf author Michael Silverthorne translator James Tully editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:26th Jul '91

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This edition provides an historically sensitive translation of Pufendorf's On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673).

On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf's succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its context, discusses the main arguments and points out their long term relevance.On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf's succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory he developed in his monumental classic On the Law of Nature and Nations (1672). His theory was the most influential natural law philosophy of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. He advanced a compelling reply to Grotius and Hobbes, and in doing so, set the intellectual problems for theorists such as Locke, Hutcheson, Hume, Rousseau, and Smith. In the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, Pufendorf sets forth a classic justification of the early modern enlightened state and of the proper relations of moral and political subjection to it. This lucid and historically sensitive translation by Michael Silverthorne, (a classicist and a specialist in Roman Law and early modern political thought) is the first since the early twentieth century. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its seventeenth-century context, summarises the main arguments, surveys recent literature on Pufendorf, and shows how Pufendorf transformed natural law theory into an independent discipline of juristic political philosophy which dominated reflection on politics until Kant.

"...an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the origins and development of modern moral and political philosophy, beyond the way that history has been shaped by the now canonical figures and texts." Canadian Philosophical Reviews

ISBN: 9780521359801

Dimensions: 220mm x 142mm x 14mm

Weight: 310g

236 pages