The rights of war and peace : political thought and the international order from Grotius to Kant / / Richard Tuck

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248274403316
• Autore: Tuck Richard <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2002; ©1999
• ISBN: 0-19-103742-7; 0-19-154287-3; 0-19-820753-0; 1-280-44543-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 341/.09
• Soggetti: International law - History - 17th century; International law - History - 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; PREFACE; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: HUMANISM; ALBERICO GENTILI; PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKES; THE RELATIVISM OF PATRIOTISM; THE NATURAL SOCIETY OF THE HUMAN RACE; THE OCCUPATION OF VACANT LAND; CHAPTER 2: SCHOLASTICISM; ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY; AUGUSTINE; DOMINIUM MUNDI; THE LAW OF THE SEA; NATURAL SLAVERY; THOMISM; CHAPTER 3: HUGO GROTIUS; INTRODUCTION; DE lNDIS: THE FOUNDATIONS; DE lNDIS: PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; DE LURE BELLI AC PACRS: SOCIABILITY; DE lURE BELLI AC PACJS: NATIVE PEOPLES; CHAPTER 4: THOMAS HOBBES; ELIZABETHAN IDEAS ON COLONIZATION; JOHN SELDENTHE OCCUPATION OF THE WILDERNESS; HOBBES: INTRODUCTION; HOBBES: FEAR AS THE BASIS FOR WAR; HOBBES: MINIMAL SOCIABILITY; HOBBES: THE STATE OF NATURE; CHAPTER 5: SAMUEL PUFENDORF; GERMAN CRITICS OF GROTIUS; PUFENDORF AS CRITIC OF HOBBES; PUFENDORF AS CRITIC OF GROTIUS I; Sociability; PUFENDORF AS CRITIC OF GROTIUS II; Property; PUFENDORF AS CRITIC OF GROTIUS III; International Punishment; CHAPTER 6: FROM LOCKE TO VATTEL; LOCKE AS A CRITIC OF PUFENDORF; COMMENTATORS ON ; PUFENDORF; MoNTESQUIEU; WOLFF; VATTEL; CHAPTER 7: ROUSSEAU AND KANT; THE HOBBESIANISM OF ROUSSEAU I; Sociability; THE HOBBESIANISM OF ROUSSEAU IIThe State; THE HOBBESIANISM OF ROUSSEAU III; The State of War; THE HOBBESIANISM OF KANT I; The State of Nature; THE HOBBESIANISM OF KANT II; The Right of Nation; THE HOBBESIANISM OF KANT III; Cosmopolitanism; CONCLUSION; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The Rights of War and Peace is a fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. Professor Tuck examines the arguments over the moral basis for war, and links the debates to the writings of Hobbes et al.