Pufendorf's Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order

• Main Author: Haara, Heikki (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy, 77
• Subjects: Political philosophy.; Political theory.; Psychology.; Philosophy.; Political science.; Political Philosophy.; Political Theory.; Law and Psychology.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy of Law.

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 tie...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter1. Reason and Habits
• Chapter2. Passions
• Chapter3. Desire for Esteem
• Chapter4. The Inclination of Self-Preservation
• Conclusion.