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SUMMARY:Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law\, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hug
 o Grotius - Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Alicia Mavor
DESCRIPTION:Hugo Grotius’s account of sovereign power in _De iure belli 
 ac pacis_ (first edition 1625) occupies a contested place in recent histor
 ies of sovereignty. This paper argues that Grotius’s legal arguments do 
 not do their work alone. They function within a broader horizon of what he
  calls “morals\,” a field of reasoning that has debts to scholastic mo
 ral theology and Aristotelian moral science. Grotius’s conception of sov
 ereignty represents a modulation between law and “morals\,” which allo
 wed him both to separate his scientific jurisprudence from the science of 
 politics and to make a parallel distinction between sovereignty and admini
 stration. The context of “morals\,” however\, is not narrowly politica
 l but inter-political\, generating a potential tension between domestic as
 pirations to sovereignty and the international order. Grotius’s “moral
 ” handling of the issues is resonant for modern dilemmas of sovereignty 
 between popular democracy and functional conceptions of international exec
 utive rule.\n\nThere will be a presentation of 45 minutes based primarily 
 on Section II of the paper. Those who want more background on the "moral" 
 dimension of the argument may perhaps wish to read Section I of the paper 
 in advance (ca. 5000 words). However\, the presentation will be self-conta
 ined and intelligible to those who have not read any of the paper.
LOCATION:Old Combination Room (OCR)\, Trinity College
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