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The Rights of War and Peace

Hugo Grotius

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ivate war, as far as the law of nature is concerned. But perhaps it may be thought that since public tribunals have been erected, private redress of wrongs is not allowable. An objection which is very just. Yet although public trials and courts of justice are not institutions of nature, but erected by the invention of men, yet as it is much more conducive to the peace of society for a matter in dispute to be decided by a disinterested person, than by the partiality and prejudice of the party aggrieved, natural justice and reason will dictate the necessity and advantage of every one's submitting to the equitable decisions of public judges. Paulus, the Lawyer, observes that "what can be done by a magistrate with the authority of the state,56 should never be intrusted to individuals; as private redress would give rise to greater disturbance. And "the reason, says King Theodoric, why laws were invented, was to prevent any one from using personal violence, for wherein woul. . . Read More

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- Станислав - Mar 04, 2023

Шикарная книга, наконец-то я её прочитал. Лучше поздно чем никогда. Я бы, правда, заметил, что она скорее должна была называться "Право: мир и война", поскольку от 2/3 до 3/4 её всё же посвящено миру. Тут сразу видна чистая эмпиризм Гуго де Грота: если убрать из книги все цитаты античных и современн

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- Bayram - Mar 04, 2021

Uluslararası hukuku başlatan kitap. Grotius, barışçıl biri sayılmasa da savaşın zararlarının da farkında. Savaşı önleyecek kuramlar geliştirmek yerine savaşın taraflarının uyması gereken uluslararası hukukun temellerini atıyor. Alanında yazılan ilk kitap. Vicdani reddi savunmasının yanında savaşı ka

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- Anna - Jul 29, 2007

This is a painful read, but there's worthwhile information in there. I don't know. I'm very ambivalent toward it. Pick the parts you read and it'll be enjoyable.

4.00
- Ian - Nov 23, 2015

Regime Change, 1970's Style

I first encountered the 17th century philosopher Hugo Grotius in 1978, when I briefly studied the international law and political philosophy with respect to unilateral declarations of independence (UDI's) and what has since become known as "regime change".

There was a UDI o

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