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Grotius, Hugo (1583–1645)

Dutch jurist and politician. His book De Jure Belli et Pacis/On the Law of War and Peace (1625) is the foundation of international law.

Grotius held that the rules governing human and international relations are founded on human nature, which is rational and social. These rules constitute a natural law binding on citizens, rulers, and God.

Grotius was born in Delft and educated at the University of London. He became a lawyer, and later received political appointments. In 1618 he was arrested as a republican and sentenced to imprisonment for life. His wife contrived his escape 1620, and he settled in France, where he composed De Jure Belli. He was Swedish ambassador in Paris 1634–45.



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It was precisely this understanding that offensive force can be justified only as a reaction to wrongdoing that led Hugo Grotius, the most systematic of all the classical just-war theorists, to issue a strong caution against preventive war.
Preemptive war: what would Aquinas say? by Reichberg, Gregory M. / Commonweal
By orienting themselves so much to the ancient natural-law tradition, they miss the main point of the modern natural-law tradition (which includes such venerable figures as Hugo Grotius, Samuel Pufendorf, John Locke, and even David Hume), which was to refute the ever-present skeptics by providing a firm and unchallengeable foundation and progression for the arguments for justice.
Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order by Palmer, Tom G. / Reason
Jane Newman examines race in the works of Hugo Grotius, showing how he imagined the Christian Ethiopians not as barbarous Others, but as being just like Christian Europeans, provided one stripped away the "accidental" features of the Christianity they practiced.
Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History: Essays ... by Rebhorn, Wayne A. / Renaissance Quarterly
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