Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945-1952
Author | : Yuma Totani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781107087620 |
ISBN-10 | : 1107087627 |
Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Download or read book Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945-1952 written by Yuma Totani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature. This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe"--