@article{856491,
      author = {Haara, Heikki.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/856491},
      title = {Pufendorf's theory of sociability : passions, habits and  social order /},
      abstract = {This book centres on Samuel Pufendorf's (1632-1694) moral  and political philosophy, a subject of recently renewed  interest among intellectual historians, philosophers and  legal scholars in the English-speaking world. Pufendorf's  significance in conceptualizing sociability in a way that  ties moral philosophy, the theory of the state, political  economy, and moral psychology together has already been  acknowledged, but this book is the first systematic  investigation of the moral psychological underpinnings of  Pufendorf's theory of sociability in their own right.  Readers will discover how Pufendorf's psychological and  social explanation of sociability plays a crucial role in  his natural law theory. By drawing attention to Pufendorf's  scattered remarks and observations on human psychology, a  new interpretation of the importance of moral psychology is  presented. The author maintains that Pufendorf's reflection  on the psychological and physical capacities of human  nature also matters for his description of how people adopt  sociability as their moral standard in practice. We see  how, since Pufendorf's interest in human nature is mainly  political, moral psychological formulations are important  for Pufendorf's theorizing of social and political order.},
      recid = {856491},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 188 pages).},
}