PUFENDORF SAMUEL

(P/B) THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF NATURE
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 and end - that is, human self-preservation and civil peace. Like Grotius and Hobbes...
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(P/B) OF THE NATURE AND QUALIFICATION OF RELIGION IN REFERENCE TO CIVIL SOCIETY
(. . .) «Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion» is thus a principled, but moderate, defence of toleration. Appearing at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Pufendorf's ideas on natural law and toleration were highly influential in both Europe and the British Isles. As Simone Zurbuchen explains in the introduction, «Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion» is a major contribution to the history and literature of religious toleration. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) TWO BOOKS OF THE ELEMENTS OF UNIVERSAL JURISPRUDENCE
Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence was Pufendorf's first work, published in 1660. Its appearance effectively inaugurated the modern natural-law movement in the German-speaking world. The work also established Pufendorf as a key figure and laid the foundations for his major works, which were to sweep across Europe and North America. Elements of Universal Jurisprudence established Pufendorf's political theory, which, when fully developed, became the most significant alternative to rights-based theories. Pufendorf rejected t...
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(P/B) THE DIVINE FEUDAL LAW
«The Divine Feudal Law» (1965) can be seen as a complement to his 1687 treatise on toleration, «Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society» (2002, Liberty Fund), which was written in reaction to Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and which clarifies that toleration should be applied only when the unification of denominations proves impossible. In «The Divine Feudal Law» Pufendorf attempts to demonstrate that a union of Lutherans and Calvinists is possible. The aim is not to eliminate disagr...
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