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

Heikki Haara (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XII, 188 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-99324-9 (ISBN)

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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 alsomatters 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.

This work is particularly useful for scholars investigating the multifaceted role of passions and emotions in the history of moral and political philosophy. It also affords a better understanding of what later philosophers, such as Smith, Hume or Rousseau, might have find appealing in Pufendorf's writings. As such, this book will also interest researchers of the Enlightenment, natural law and early modern philosophy.

Heikki Haara is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. He has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of California, Berkeley and Oxford. Currently, he works in the Academy of Finland's centre for excellence, Reason and Religious Recognition.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	The New Synthese Historical Library
Zusatzinfo	XII, 188 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Early modern theories of passions • Explaining sociability in political theory • Fear and political governace • Hobbes and Pufendorf • Pufendorf and Natural law theories • Pufendorf and Scottish enlightenment • Pufendorf on self-love and sociability • Pufendorf's political theory • Pufendorf’s political theory • Pufendorf's principle of necessity • Pufendorf’s principle of necessity • Pufendorf's theory on Sociability • Pufendorf’s theory on Sociability • Shame and sociability • The desire for esteem • The state of nature and sociability • Will, understanding and moral actions
ISBN-10	3-319-99324-0 / 3319993240
ISBN-13	978-3-319-99324-9 / 9783319993249
Zustand	Neuware