Ne swik þu nauer nu

I finally cracked open The Sources of Normativity and read the first lecture.  My thoughts:

1. p 11, "so that you are neither a tool in her hands nor she in yours" should be rewritten, perhaps as "so that neither you nor she is a tool in the other's hands" or "so that you are not a tool in her hands nor she in yours".
2. p 23, "But in the absence of God, Pufendorf wrote, the precepts of morality 'though they might be observed for their utility, like the prescriptions doctors give to regulate health, they would not be laws' for 'they get the force of law only upon the presupposition[s] that God exists'.", should be "But in the absence of God, Pufendorf wrote, the precepts of morality, 'though they might be observed for their utility, like the prescriptions doctors give to regulate health, ... would not be laws' for 'they get the force of law only upon the presupposition[s] that God exists'."; as it stands the commas are not balanced and "would" has two subjects.  (I would also like to put a comma after the end of the first quotation.)

Comments

[rone]

I would also do a global search and replace Pufendorf with Pufenstuf.

[ben wolfson]

It's kind of hard to do that with a print book.