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

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Edited by
James Tully
, McGill University, Montréal
Translated by
Michael Silverthorne
, McGill University, Montréal
Published 1991

Description

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…

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  • Pufendorf's theory of natural law was one of the most influential theory of the 17th and 18th centuries. This volume is a succinct condensed version of this theory, a reply to Hobbes which influenced Locke, Hume and Rousseau
  • This is the first translation of the work since the early twentieth-century
  • Has a clear introduction putting the work into context, a chronology and a bibliography

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