POLITSC 4455 Chapter Notes -Hugo Grotius, Natural Philosophy, Endangerment
17 Oct 2014
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Natural law: christian moral philosophers saw natural law"s most important development as a response to the civil and religious wars during the early modern period, natural law"s increasing theoretical elaboration and differentiation dominated moral and political philosophy in the 17th century, and on the practical side, its wide ranging dissemination during the 17 th and 18h centuries influenced the formation of european bureaucracies and civil servants, natural law was universal and based on the assumption that all rational beings were able to grasp and follow dictates of right reason. This assumption is controversial and can be divided into three main strands of natural law theories: pagan/ancient, christian, modern, natural law theories provide the foundation for, the western idea of the social contract as the underlying rationale of legitimate state authority, international law and the claim that each human individual is the bearer of inalienable rights.
