The whole duty of man according to the law of nature
By: Samuel Pufendorf ; translated by Andrew Tooke, 1691 ; edited with an Introduction by Ian Hunter and David Saunders. Two discourses and a commentary / by Jean Barbeyrac ; translated by David Saunders.
Contributors: Hunter, Ian, 1949-; Saunders, David, 1940-; Barbeyrac, Jean, 1674-1744.
Series: Natural law and enlightenment classics
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Indianapolis, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Natural law.; Ethics.; State, The.
Other titles: Two discourses and a commentary.
Description: "In The Whole Duty of Man (1691), first published in Latin in 1673 as De officio hominis et civis, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.