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SUMMARY:Declared War according to Hugo Grotius: Lawful but Immoral and Sin
 ful - Tobias Schaffner (Pembroke)
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CONTACT:Christian Schlaepfer
DESCRIPTION:Declarations of war characterised the opening of warfare in Eu
 rope until the twentieth century. Today we regard this practice to belong 
 to an age of warmongers and militarists. These conflicting views on declar
 ations of war are already reflected in Hugo Grotius' famous treatise on th
 e law of war\, the De Jure Belli ac Pacis\, first published in 1625. Groti
 us\, a Dutch scholar (1583-1645)\, held that a sovereign nation may lawful
 ly declare and wage war against another nation\, for instance in pursuit o
 f territorial aggrandizement. At the same time\, he considered such a war 
 immoral and sinful. My talk will briefly discuss the two rival traditions 
 to which these conflicting views belong and explain the synthesis that Gro
 tius sought to establish between human law on the one hand and morality an
 d divine law on the other. \n\n
LOCATION:Graduate Union\, 17 Mill Lane\, Meeting Room
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