Pufendorf On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law

Name: Pufendorf On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law
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ISBN: 9780521359801

ISBN-10: 0521359805

ISBN-13: 9780521359801

Edition: 1991

Authors: Samuel Pufendorf, James Tully, Michael Silverthorne, Raymond Geuss, Quentin. Skinner

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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…

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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/26/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.66" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.880

Michael Silverthorne is Honorary University Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Exeter. He is co-editor with Lisa Jardine of Francis Bacon: The New Organon (2000).



Main works by Pufendorf and abbreviations


Chronology of Pufendorf's life and publications


Editor's introduction


Bibliography


Bibliographical note


Translator's note


On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law


Index