 Pufendorf’s political philosophy or doctrine of the state, including the latter’s internal and external functions, is continuous and consistent with his ethics; in fact, they are not really distinct. Both rest on the same natural law foundation, namely the sociality law which regulates not only pre-civil relations, institutions, and societies but also the civil condition needed to secure them. As thoroughly social beings who are incapable of living alone, humans are subject to sociality’s requirements at all stages of their lives, both temporally and organizationally, and the establishment of political authority does not leave morality and its obligations behind but rather facilitates and extends their reach. The tempered realism of the political sphere is not a forced abandonment of moral norms but an articulation of the natural law’s demands amid the increasing complexities of collective human existence, including its inevitable constraints, exclusions, and compromises. In Pufendorf’s natural law theory, politics is a form of social ethics.