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The Rights of War and Peace (1); Including the Law of Nature and of Nations
The Rights of War and Peace Including the Law of Nature and of Nations - 1 Author:Hugo Grotius Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: M.W. Dunne Subjects: International law War (International law) International law and relations Natural law International relations War (International law) History / Military / General Law / International Law / Military ... more » Law / Natural Law Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. Inquiry Into The Lawfulness Of War. Reasons proving the lawfulness of War -- Proofs from History -- Proofs from general consent -- The Law of Nature proved not repugnant to War -- War not condemned by the voluntary Divine Law preceding the Gospel -- Objections answered -- Review of the question whether War be contrary to the Law of the Gospel -- Arguments from Scripture for the negative Opinions -- Answer to the Arguments taken from Scripture for the affirmative -- The opinions of the primitive Christians on the subject examined. I. After examining the sources of right, the first and most general question that occurs, is whether any war is just, or if it is ever lawful to make war. But this question like many others that follow, must in the first place be compared with the rights of nature. Cicero in the third book of his Bounds of Good and Evil, and in other parts of his works, proves with great erudition from the writings of the Stoics, that there are certain first principles of nature, called by the Greeks the first natural impressions, which are succeeded by other principles of obligation superior even to the first impressions themselves. He calls the care, which every animal, from the moment of its birth, feels for itself and the preservation of its condition, its abhorrence of destruction, and of every thing ...« less