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Of the Law of Nature and Nations

work by Pufendorf

Also known as: “De Jure Naturae et Gentium Libri Octo”

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In Samuel, baron von Pufendorf: Career in Sweden
…he published his great work, Of the Law of Nature and Nations. The following year he published an excerpt from it, titled The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature, in which Pufendorf departed from the traditional approach of the medieval theologians to natural law and based…
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