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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Grotius."”.
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The Politics of John Selden, 1584-1654
… of his more illustrious contemporaries, Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes, has led modern historians to disregard the influence of his theory of politics on both his practical and contemplative interests. It is the aim of the present thesis to remedy this neglect. It will not argue that Selden’s …
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The common law of nations : the ius gentium in the political thought of Francisco Suárez, S.J.
… comparing and contrasting it with that of Hugo Grotius and Edmund Burke, I will endeavor to demonstrate that Suárez's account of international relations most accurately identifies the bases for international order without international authority.
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The Effect of Power and Colonialism on Religion and Secularization: Expanding Taylor's A Secular Age
… the writings of Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius and John Locke. In order to trace the effects of flows of power from religious authority to state authority, this paper examines the views of Michel Foucault and Talal Asad on power, agency, identity and freedom through the lens of religion …
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Humanitarian intervention: legality, legitimacy and the search for solutions
… from the just war doctrine as postulated by Grotius and other early just war theorists. The need to allow for unilateral intervention is pertinent given the rise in the abuse of power by some governments. Sovereignty should not be an umbrella that shields human rights abuses.
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Natural law and religion in the thought of Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694)
… The natural jurists of the seventeenth century (Grotius, Hobbes, and Pufendorf) all sought a remedy for the condition of war in independent sovereign states. Pufendorf's concept of a state derived from an assumed natural state of mankind, regulated by a law of nature, a law which obliges all men …
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The ancient notion of self-preservation in the theories of Hobbes and Spinoza
… thought by authors such as Justus Lipsius, Hugo Grotius and Pierre Gassendi are considered in detail and are placed within the context of the growing trend to use Stoic and Epicurean thought to replace the authority of Aristotle in the areas of science, psychology, and politics. The final two …
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The inadequacy of the contractual analogy in the Law of Treaties.
… based on the achievement of "Consensus fl. GROTIUS, WOLFF and VATTEL develop, in their writings, a consensus construction of treaty law and offer their insight into the pu - blic hature of treaty rights. Correspondingly, the various treaty patterns established between European Nations and …
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The ideal of liberty in the political philosophy of David Hume
… in the late seventeenth century most notably by Grotius and Pufendorff, and in the direction it took within the Scottish Enlightenment in particular. Though these two aspects cover a substantial part of Hume’s work, it has been particularly difficult to place Hume in the context of another major …
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A Hybrid Theory of Global Justice
… hybrid theory in history, considering Epicurus, Grotius, and Hobbes. I evaluate each hybrid theory, drawing out their strengths and weaknesses. However, I ultimately argue that none provides a successful theory of global justice. Next, I articulate and defend a particular version of hybrid theory …