The whole duty of man according to the law of nature / Samuel Pufendorf ; translated by Andrew Tooke, 1691 ; edited and with an introduction by Ian Hunter and David Saunders. Two discourses and a commentary / by Jean Barbeyrac ; translated by David Saunders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von, 1632-1694.

Contributor:

Hunter, Ian, 1949-

Saunders, David, 1940-

Series:

Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von, 1632-1694. English. 2002. Works.

Natural law and enlightenment classics

The works of Samuel Pufendorf

Standardized Title:

De officio hominis et civis. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural law.

Ethics.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Ind. : Liberty Fund, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Samuel Pufendorf, The Whole Duty of Man

Front Matter

Title Page

Copyright Details

Table of Contents

Introduction, p. ix

Pufendorf's Whole Duty of Man

To the Reader, p. 7

Table of Contents, p. 11

The Author's Preface, p. 15

Book I

Chap. 1. Of the Rule of Human Actions, or of Laws in general, p. 27

Chap. 2. Of the Rule of Human Actions, or of Laws in general, p. 42

Chap. 3. Of the Laws of Nature, p. 52

Chap. 4. Of the Duty of Man towards God, or concerning Natural Religion, p. 60

Chap. 5. Of the Duty of a Man towards Himself, p. 69

Chap. 6. Of the Duty of one Man to another, and first of doing no Injury to any Man, p. 94

Chap. 7. The Natural Equality of Men to be acknowledged, p. 100

Chap. 8. Of the mutual Duties of Humanity, p. 104

Chap. 9. The Duty of Men in making Contracts, p. 108

Chap. 10. The Duty of Men in Discourse, p. 119

Chap. 11. The Duty of those that take an Oath, p. 123

Chap. 12. Duties to be observ'd in acquiring Possession of Things, p. 128

Chap. 13. The Duties which naturally result from Man's Property in Things, p. 137

Chap. 14. Of the Price and Value of Things, p. 140

Chap. 15. Of those Contracts in which the Value of Things is presupposed, and of the Duties thence arising, p. 145

Chap. 16. The several methods by which the Oblications arising from Contracts are dissolved, p. 156

Chap. 17. Of Meaning or Interpretation, p. 159

Book II

Chap. 1. Of the natural State of Men, p. 166

Chap. 2. Of the Duties of the married State, p. 174

Chap. 3. Duty of Parents and Children, p. 179

Chap. 4. The Duties of Masters and Servants, p. 184

Chap. 5. The Impulsive Cause of Constituting Communities, p. 187

Chap. 6. Of the Internal Frame and Constitution of any State or Government, p. 192.

Chap. 7. Of the several Parts of Government, p. 198

Chap. 8. Of the several Forms of Government, p. 203

Chap. 9. The Qualifications of Civil Government, p. 208

Chap. 10. How Government, especially Monarchical, is acquired, p. 210

Chap. 11. The Duty of supreme Governeours, p. 214

Chap. 12. Of the special Laws of a Community, p. 221

Chap. 13. Of the Power of Life and Death, p. 225

Chap. 14. Of Reputation, p. 232

Chap. 15. Of the Power of Gov ernours over the Goods of their Subjects, p. 236

Chap. 16. Of War and Peace, p. 238

Chap. 17. Of Alliances, p. 245

Chap. 18. The Duty of Subjects, p. 247

Index, p. 251

The Judgment of an Anonymous Writer on the Original of this Abridgment, p. 267

Discourse on What is Permitted by the Laws, p. 307

Discourse on the Benefits Conferred by the Laws, p. 331

Index, p. 361.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Barbeyrac, Jean, 1674-1744. Two discourses and a commentary.

Two discourses and a commentary.

ISBN:

1-61487-851-X

OCLC:

61744632