Abstract
This paper provides a preliminary assessment the role of law and power in Samuel Pufendorf’s secular ethics. Pufendorf designed his ethics for “this life”, and grounded morality within a geometric network of obligations that connected the sovereign to the actors of the sovereign’s office. One of the most interesting aspects of Pufendorf’s ethics is how he links freedom and power. We are totally free in the state of nature, yet powerless. We have power as citizens, but limited freedom. Comparison is made with the political ethics of John Rawls.
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