This reprint of the 1735 translated edition of the 1691 work De officio hominis et civis , in which the author expounds on his system of political ethics, adds three commentary essays by 18th-century
Samuel Pufendorf's seminal work, The Whole Duty of Man, According to the Law of Nature (first published in Latin in 1673), was among the first to suggest a purely conventional basis for natural law
