Book contents
- Space and Fates of International Law
- ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
- Space and Fates of International Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on Uses of Leibniz’s and Hobbes’s Works and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Science and Law in the Seventeenth Century
- 2 Space
- 3 The Idea of Universals and Human Cognition
- 4 Law
- 5 Intermezzo
- 6 Space(s) of International Law
- Conclusions and the Way Forward
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Science and Law in the Seventeenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2020
- Space and Fates of International Law
- ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
- Space and Fates of International Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on Uses of Leibniz’s and Hobbes’s Works and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Science and Law in the Seventeenth Century
- 2 Space
- 3 The Idea of Universals and Human Cognition
- 4 Law
- 5 Intermezzo
- 6 Space(s) of International Law
- Conclusions and the Way Forward
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The chapter describes the general background of science and law in the seventeenth century. It highlights main philosophical debates of this century and their link to religion. It highlights search for ’new philosophies’, as well as emergance of mechanical philosophies. The centrality of the geometrical method in this century is highlighted as well as its influence on both Leibniz and Hobbes. In relation to Leibniz this method was radically transformed and advanced into the project of scientia generalis and characteristica universalis. Political instability and search for peace are the main genral features of the period, which is still characterised by fragmented and multilayered legal landscape.
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- Space and Fates of International LawBetween Leibniz and Hobbes, pp. 9 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020