Pufendorf's theory of sociability : passions, habits and social order / Heikki Haara.
2018
JC156 .H33 2018
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Title
Pufendorf's theory of sociability : passions, habits and social order / Heikki Haara.
Author
Haara, Heikki.
ISBN
9783319993256 (electronic book)
3319993259 (electronic book)
3319993240
9783319993249
3319993259 (electronic book)
3319993240
9783319993249
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 188 pages).
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JC156 .H33 2018
Summary
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.
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