ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hugo Grotius, Glossator, State Agency For National Security
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Reason men = able to distinguish good >< evil. Appetitus socialis natural inclination to live with other humans. Number of timeless and universal principles that every person would consider natural and spontaneously recognize as reasonable . Grotius (1583 1645): founder of the modern school of natural law (christianity >< natural law) Domat (1625 1696): worked on the basis of. Christian and moral premises new classification of civil law: les lois civils dans leur ordre naturel (will latter influence the bgb) Pufendorf (1632 1694): creates a system based on christian principles and influenced by moral philosophy; de officio hominis et civis iuxta legam naturalem. Leibniz (1646 1716): roman law = rational greatest source for law and justice but need different structure and system: one more geometrico. Wolff (1679 1754): intellectual system, exacts sciences methods high point of modern natural law. They tried to construct a legal system based on a few axiomatically principles which could possibly solve any dispute.
