Samuel Pufendorf disciple of Hobbes : : for a re-interpretation of modern natural law / / by Fiammetta Palladini ; translated by David Saunders ; introduction by Ian Hunter.

• Superior document: Early modern natural law: studies & sources ; Volume 2
• VerfasserIn: Palladini, Fiammetta,
• TeilnehmendeR: Saunders, David, 1940-; Hunter, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English; Italian
• Series: Early modern natural law ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

Fiammetta Palladini’s work is one of the most important discussions of Pufendorf to appear in the latter part of the twentieth century. It cut through the existing field of Pufendorf studies, laying bare its inherited templates and tacit assumptions. Palladini was thus able to peel back the ‘Grotian’ commentary in which the great thinker had been shrouded, revealing a Pufendorf well-known in the 1680s—a formidable and dangerous natural jurist and political theorist—but doubly obscured in the 1980s and still today, by a philosophical history that flies too high to see him, and by a commentary literature that too often does not like what it sees. David Saunders’ remarkable translation carries Palladini’s argument into English with maximum fidelity.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Ian Hunter) -- A note from the translator (David Saunders) -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Pufendorf the Hobbesian -- I. The theory of obligation -- 1. The hobbesian matrix of the theory -- 2. The re-thinking of the hobbesian principles -- II. Nature of man and state of nature: the doctrine of sociality -- 1. Human nature -- 2. The state of nature -- 3. The hobbesian inheritance in the doctrines of sociality and the state of nature -- 4. Consequences of the force of Pufendorf’s anti-hobbesian arguments relating to the state of nature -- Part Two: Why did Pufendorf pass for an anti-hobbesian? -- I. Pufendorf’s place in the history of ethics according to Pufendorf -- II. The role of Cumberland -- 1. The utilisation of Cumberland -- 2. Differences between the first and the second editions of the / De iure -- 3. Cumberlandian paternity of these notions -- 4. Incompatibility of Cumberland’s system with that of Pufendorf -- 5. Other variants between the first and the second editions of the / De iure -- III. Anti-hobbesian aspects of the / Elementa -- 1. The social nature of man in observation 3 of the / Elementa -- 2. How this observation is utilised and transformed in the / De iure -- 3. The origin of civil society in the / Elementa and the / De iure -- 4. Drawbacks of the utilisation of the / Elementa in the / De iure -- 5. What relation is there, according to Pufendorf, between law of nature and utility? -- 6. The evolution of Pufendorf’s thought -- IV. The Barbeyrac factor Conclusion Leave-taking.