Grotius on the Foundation of Natural Law

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004501782_011" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004501782_011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Grotius on the Foundation of Natural Law

Original language description

Chotaš argues that Grotius may be considered the father of modern natural law only in retrospect, that is, from the perspective of how he was interpreted by his followers and based on the motifs from his work they later developed. It is quite apparent that in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War, the idea of religious tolerance had suffered a grave defeat in Europe. Answer to the question whether Grotius bases his concept of natural law on secular or theological foundations thus depends on the perspective from which we pose this question: Grotius builds the natural law on both foundations. His followers, who no longer viewed religion as an integral part of their worldview, interpreted his writings as arguing for natural law’s secular foundations. For us, however, it is his comprehensive approach to a system of international law and the idea of religious tolerance which are the main reasons why Grotius’s writings still deserve to be studied in our times.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries

ISBN

978-90-04-49853-2

Number of pages of the result

19

Pages from-to

223-241

Number of pages of the book

349

Publisher name

Brill

Place of publication

Leiden

UT code for WoS chapter

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