Samuel von Pufendorf is a lawyer and German Philosophe of the natural Right, born the January 8th 1632, dead the October 13rd 1694.

It is known to have developed original designs of the natural company, natural law, sovereign capacity and double contract. Pufendorf is one of the large schoolmasters of the natural right.

It is one of the inspirers of the principles of the American Constitution of 1787 (according to the bond on anthropology).

Principal works

• Two books on the elements of universal jurisprudence , 1660
• the state present of Germany , 1667,
• Of swears naturae and gentium (right of nature and people). 1672. (extracts, French edition)
• Of officio hominis and civis prout ipsi praescribuntur light naturali (Two Books on the Duty of the Man and the Citizen according to the Natural law), 1673 (French edition: Vol. 1, vol. 2), translated by Jean Barbeyrac
• Of habitus religionis christianae AD vitam civilem (Of the capacity of the Christian religion in the relation with the life of a citizen), 1687,
• Law of diplomacy, or agreement and dissension of the Protestants , 1695. (French edition)

See too

• Ethical

• Moral
• natural Right
• Impressed ecological
• Philosophy of nature

External bonds

• Site on anthropology and French-speaking Africa

• Site giving works, the resources