Just and Sinner Podcast

Samuel Pufendorf on Natural Law and Voluntarism

Just and Sinner Podcast

Show Notes

This episode is part of the ongoing "Makers of the Modern World" series. In this video, I look at an influential Lutheran philosopher and theologian named Samuel Pufendorf in the mid-seventeenth century and his contribution to the decline of traditional understandings of natural law.

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