The Whole Duty of Man, According to the Law of Nature. Samuel Pufendorf

The Whole Duty of Man, According to the Law of Nature - Samuel Pufendorf


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what has been said on the same Point in different Places, and comprehending the whole under one Head or Section.13 And lastly, that nothing might be wanting to render this in all Points perfect, a Compleat Index is added.

      CONTENTS

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       IX. The Duty of Men in making Contracts

       X. The Duty of Men in Discourse

       XI. The Duty of those that take an Oath

       XII. Duties to be observ’d in acquiring Possession of Things

       XIII. The Duties which naturally result from Man’s Property in Things

       XIV. Of the Price and Value of Things

       XV. Of those Contracts in which the Value of Things is presupposed, and of the Duties thence arising

       XVI. The several Methods by which the Obligations arising from Contracts are dissolved

       XVII. Of Meaning or Interpretation

       BOOK II

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       Chap. I. Of the natural State of Men

       II. Of the Duties of the married State

       III. The Duty of Parents and Children

       IV. The Duties of Masters and Servants

       V. The impulsive Cause of Constituting Communities

       VI. Of the Internal Frame and Constitution of any State or Government

       VII. Of the several Parts of Government

       VIII. Of the several Forms of Government

       IX. The Qualifications of Civil Government

       X. How Government, especially Monarchical, is acquired

       XI. The Duty of supreme Governours

       XII. Of the special Laws of a Community

       XIII. Of the Power of Life and Death

       XIV. Of Reputation

       XV. Of the Power of Governours over the Goods of their Subjects

       XVI. Of War and Peace

       XVII. Of Alliances

       XVIII. The Duty of Subjects

      THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE

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      The Author’s Design.

      Had not the Custom which has so generally obtain’d among Learned Men, almost procured to it self the Force of a Law, it might seem altogether superfluous to premise a Word concerning the Reason of the *present Undertaking; the Thing it self plainly declaring my whole Design to be, the giving as short, and yet, if I mistake not, as plain and perspicuous a Compendium of the most material Articles of the Law of Nature, as was possible; and this, lest, if such as betake themselves to this Study should enter those vast Fields of Knowledge without having fully imbibed the Rudiments thereof, they should at first sight be terrified and confounded by the Copiousness and Difficulty of the Matters occurring therein. And, at the same time, it seems plainly a very expedient Work for the Publick, that the Minds, of Youth especially, should be early imbu’d with that Moral Learning, for which they will have such manifest Occasion, and so frequent Use, through the whole Course of their Lives.

      And altho’ I have always looked upon it as a Work deserving no great Honour, to Epitomize the larger Writings of others, and more especially one’s own; yet having thus done out of Submission to the commanding Authority of my Superiors, I hope no honest Man will blame me for having endeavoured hereby to improve the Understandings of Young Men more particularly; to whom so great Regard is to be had, that whatsoever Work is undertaken for their sakes, tho’ it may not be capable of great Acuteness or splendid Eloquence, yet it is not to be accounted unworthy of any Man’s Pains. Beside, that no Man, in his Wits, will deny, that these Principles thus laid down are more conducive to the understanding of all Laws in general, than any Elements of the Law Civil can be.

      And this might have sufficed for the present; but I am minded by some, that it would not be improper to lay down some few


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