Overview
- Investigates the moral-psychological underpinnings of Pufendorf’s theory of sociability
- Provides a new interpretation of Pufendorf’s theory of passions
- Sheds new light on the role of passions in early modern natural law theories
Part of the book series: The New Synthese Historical Library (SYNL, volume 77)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Early modern theories of passions
- Explaining sociability in political theory
- Fear and political governace
- Hobbes and Pufendorf
- Pufendorf’s theory on Sociability
- Pufendorf and Natural law theories
- Pufendorf’s principle of necessity
- Pufendorf’s political theory
- Pufendorf on self-love and sociability
- Pufendorf and Scottish enlightenment
- Shame and sociability
- The state of nature and sociability
- The desire for esteem
- Will, understanding and moral actions
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Book Title: Pufendorf’s Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order
Authors: Heikki Haara
Series Title: The New Synthese Historical Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99325-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99324-9Published: 16 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99325-6Published: 08 November 2018
Series ISSN: 1879-8578
Series E-ISSN: 2352-2585
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 188
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Law and Psychology, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Law