Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Short Titles of Works by Grotius
- Editions and Translations of Grotius’ Work
- Introduction
- Part I Grotius in Context
- Part II Concepts
- 4 Virtue
- 5 Trust (Fides)
- 6 Natural Law as True Law
- 7 Sociability
- 8 Sovereignty
- 9 Church and State
- 10 Predestination
- 11 Rights (I)
- 12 Rights (II)
- 13 Property, Trade and Empire
- Part III Grotius as a Man of Letters, Theologian and Political Writer
- Part IV Grotius as a Legal Scholar
- Part V The Reception of Grotius
- Index
- References
5 - Trust (Fides)
from Part II - Concepts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Short Titles of Works by Grotius
- Editions and Translations of Grotius’ Work
- Introduction
- Part I Grotius in Context
- Part II Concepts
- 4 Virtue
- 5 Trust (Fides)
- 6 Natural Law as True Law
- 7 Sociability
- 8 Sovereignty
- 9 Church and State
- 10 Predestination
- 11 Rights (I)
- 12 Rights (II)
- 13 Property, Trade and Empire
- Part III Grotius as a Man of Letters, Theologian and Political Writer
- Part IV Grotius as a Legal Scholar
- Part V The Reception of Grotius
- Index
- References
Summary
What is the legacy of Grotius’ doctrinal efforts, and how did they impact on current structures of international law? Was he providing a natural law foundation for the global order, or rather an instrument of power for sovereigns to assert their political and commercial dominion over the world?
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- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius , pp. 118 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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Further Reading
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Blom, H., ‘Sociability and Hugo Grotius’, History of European Ideas 41 (2015) 589–604.Google Scholar
Blom, H., ‘Hugo Grotius on trust. Its causes and effects’, in Kontler, L. and Somos, M. (eds.), Trust and Happiness in the History of Political Thought (Leiden and Boston, 2018), 76–98.Google Scholar
Boyer, A., Chose Promise. Études sur la Promesse à partir de Hobbes et de quelques autres (Paris, 2014).Google Scholar
Eyffinger, A., ‘On good faith and bad faith: introductory note’ in Grotiana N.S. 36 (2015) 79–105.Google Scholar
Fikentscher, W., De fide et perfidia. Der Treuegedanke in den ‘Staatsparallelen’ des Hugo Grotius aus heutiger Sicht (Munich, 1979).Google Scholar
Hartmann, M., ‘On the concept of basic trust’ in Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation 8 (2015) 5–23.Google Scholar
Hinshelwood, B., ‘Punishment and sovereignty in De Indis and De iure belli ac pacis’ in Grotiana N.S. 38 (2017) 71–103.Google Scholar
Schröder, P., ‘Sine fide nulla pax – Überlegungen zu Vertrauen und Krieg in den politischen Theorien von Machiavelli, Gentili und Grotius’, in Formisano, M. and Böhme, H. (eds.), War in Words Transformations of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz (Berlin, 2010), 37–60.Google Scholar
Schröder, P., Trust in Early Modern International Political Thought, 1598–1713 (Cambridge, 2017).Google Scholar
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Straumann, B., Roman Law in the State of Nature. The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius’ Natural Law (Cambridge, 2015).Google Scholar