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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 groun...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Latín |
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Indianapolis, IN :
Liberty Fund,
2003.
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| Series: | Natural law and enlightenment classics.
Online library of liberty. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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 |
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| Item Description: | Title from web site as viewed on 09/29/2005. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781614878513 161487851X |