On the Law of War and Peace (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Huig de Groot
- First Published: 1625
- Type of Work: Treatise on International Law
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Politics, God, Law or legislation, War, Seventeenth century, Good and evil, Catholics or Catholic Church, Peace
Critical Evaluation:
ON THE LAW OF WAR AND PEACE (DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS), the first systematic treatise on international law, remains a great landmark in the history of modern civilization and one of the foundations of modern international law. Grotius had a three-fold reason for writing his great book. First, he was morally and philosophically concerned with the problem of war. He was not a utopian who hoped to outlaw war, which he thought a regrettable but natural thing, but a practical attorney and an erstwhile public official who hoped to regulate and mitigate the...
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