About the right of war and peace. Grotius G.

Hugo Grotius - the famous Dutch lawyer and statesman, philosopher, playwright and poet. Laid the foundations of international law of the New Age, having developed a political and legal doctrine based on a new methodology, which contains original solutions to a number of problems of the general theory of law and state, as well as radical software for that time. - The treatise “On the Law of War and Peace”, published in 1625 in France and dedicated to Louis XIII - developed and formulated a system of principles of natural law, law of peoples and public law. When writing it, the Dutch scientist pursued the following goals - to solve the current problems of international law and to prove that during the war the voice of the law should not be drowned out by the roar of weapons. Gugo Grotius lived during the eighty years of war between the Netherlands and Spain and the Thirty Years of War between Catholics and Protestants of Europe, he condemned aggressive, aggressive wars and believed that such conflicts should only be waged in order to conclude peace and obey the principles of natural law - this attitude of the author and fell into the author The basis of the treatise "On the Law of War and Peace".