Hugo grotius - individual rights as the core of natural law

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Four hundred years ago the Dutchman Hugo Grotius developed his infl uential theory that man by nature has certain fundamental, enforceable moral rights. The duty to respect these rights is a dictate of right reason, i.e., of natural law, with the principal command to live in peace with other people. 1.

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Aure, A. H. (2015). Hugo grotius - individual rights as the core of natural law. In Philosophy of Justice (pp. 75–94). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9175-5_6

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