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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "De officio hominis et civis. English".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog alternative "Two discourses and a commentary.".
- catalog contributor b12550957.
- catalog contributor b12550958.
- catalog contributor b12550959.
- catalog contributor b12550960.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 381 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0865973741 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "086597375X (pb : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Natural law and enlightenment classics".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "Works by Jean Barbeyrac translated from the French.".
- catalog language "eng lat".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Indianapolis, IN : Liberty Fund,".
- catalog subject "340/.112 21".
- catalog subject "Ethics.".
- catalog subject "K457.P8 D4313 2003".
- catalog subject "Natural law.".
- catalog subject "State, The.".
- catalog title "De officio hominis et civis. English".
- catalog title "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.".
- catalog type "text".