Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf (1632–1694)1 was the most celebrated German legal philosopher of the second half of the 17th century, in virtue of three widely disseminated jurisprudential works: De Jure Naturae et Gentium (1670), De Officio Hominis et Civilis (1682), and the so-called Eris Scandica (Palladini 1996, passim).
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Riley, P. (2009). The Legal Theory of Pufendorf. In: Pattaro, E., Canale, D., Grossi, P., Hofmann, H., Riley, P. (eds) A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2964-5_13
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