The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature...
The First English Translation of Pufendorf's De Officio Hominis et Civis Pufendorf, Samuel von [1632-1694]. Motte, Benjamin [d.1710], Translator. The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature. By that Famous Civilian Samuel Puffendorf, Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations, In the University of Heidelberg, And in the Caroline University, Afterwards Counsellour and Historiographer to the K. of Sweden, And to his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg. Now Made English. London: Printed by Benj. Motte, For Charles Harper, At the Flower-de-Luce Over-Against S. Dunstan's Church, Fleetstreet, 1691. [xxxvi], 338, [2] pp. Final leaf is bookseller catalogue. Octavo (7" x 4-1/4"; 17.75 x 10.75 cm). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, lettering piece, gilt-edged raised bands and blind fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to margins in a few places, folds to corners of a few leaves, tiny inkspot to head of leaf A3 (pp. [5-6]). A handsome copy. $1,950. * First English-language edition. Originally published in 1672 in Latin as De Officio Hominis et Civis, this is a synopsis of Pufendorf's De Jure Naturae et Gentium, a landmark work that proposed a thorough system of private, public, and international law based on natural law. Beginning with a consideration of fundamental legal ideas and their various divisions, Pufendorf proceeds to a discussion of the validity of customs, the doctrines of necessity and innate human reason. It is significant in part because it develops principles introduced by Grotius and Hobbes. Unlike Hobbes, Pufendorf argued that peace, not war, was the state of nature, and he proposed that international law was not restricted to Christendom. English Short-Title Catalogue R17921.
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