Three Moments in the History of the Ius Gentium (1500-1700)

J.A.Fernández-Santamaríais a retired professor of history with a Ph.D. (1970) from Indiana University. His latest published book is La guerra en el pensamiento político y jurídico de Occidente (1500-1700), (Madrid, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2018).

Acknowledgments


 Introduction


The Background: The Fathers

 1 St. Augustine


 2 St. Thomas




part 1

The Theologians’ Moment

1 The American Question

 1 The Indians and their Commonwealths


 2 Vitoria’s De potestate civile


 3 Commentaries




2 Soto: Subjective Natural Right

 1 Life


 2 The Law


 3 Natural Law


 4 Precepts and Principles


 5 Dominium


 6 The Right of Peoples




part 2

The Philosophers’ Moment

3 The Philosophy of Order: Suárez

 1 Introduction


 2 Reason or Will?


 3 Natural Right


 4 The ius gentium


 5 The Origin of the Right of Peoples


 6 Civil Society


 7 The Political Pact




4 The Making of a Ius Belli: Grotius

 1 Life


 2 The Case for the Will


 3 Natural Right


 4 Political Ideas


 5 If God did not Exist


 6 The Nature of Natural Right


 7 The Right of Peoples


 8 The Law of War




part 3

The Jurists’ Moment

5 The Early Jurists

 1 Diego de Covarrubias


 2 Baltasar Ayala


 3 Alberico Gentili




6 The Making of an International Authority: Rachel

 1 The Characteristics of Natural Right


 2 Divine Providence


 3 A Scientific System of Natural Right


 4 The Right of Peoples


 5 The Case for a ius gentium




7 Natural Right, Reign without Rule: Textor

 1 The General Notion of ius gentium


 2 The Division of the ius gentium


 3 Civil Society


 4 The Right to Resist


 5 War




 The Philosophy of Chaos: Hobbes




Bibliography


Index of Persons


Index of Subjects