Overview
- Is a comprehensive study of the consequences of Vitoria's thoughts for the creation of an international law theory
- Elaborates on the development of the School of Salamanca’s concept of "just war" and human rights protection for current conflicts
- Includes a chapter on applying the idea of the "nomos of the code" to the governance of digital communications
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Law and Justice (SHLJ, volume 10)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Vitoria as the Father of International Law
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Front Matter
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The Ambiguous Modernity of Vitoria’s Theological and Economical Thoughts
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Keywords
- Salamanca's School
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Just War
- Origins of International Law
- Francisco De Vitoria
- Founder of the Modern Law of Nations
- Vitoria as a father of International Law
- de Vitoria and the Natural Law School
- de Vitoria and the Sovereignty of Law
- problem of Eurocentrism
- modern historiography of International Law
- Vitoria and the jus bellum iustum
- de Vitoria´s theory of just war
- de Vitoria on Justice and Dominion
- Vitoria’s theological and economical thoughts
- Vitoria´s Doctrine of the Providential Function of Commerce
- Vitoria and the use of force
About this book
This book is based on an international project conducted by the Institute for European Studies of the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid and a seminar on Vitoria and International Law which took place on July 2nd 2015 in the convent of San Esteban, the place where Vitoria spent his most productive years as Chair of Theology at the University of Salamanca. It argues that Vitoria not only lived at a time bridging the Middle Ages and Modernity, but also that his thoughts went beyond the times he lived in, giving us inspiration for meeting current challenges that could also be described as “modern” or even post-modern.
There has been renewed interest in Francisco de Vitoria in the last few years, and he is now at the centre of a debate on such central international topics as political modernity, colonialism, the discovery of the “Other” and the legitimation of military interventions. All these subjects include Vitoria’s contributions to the formation of the idea of modernity andmodern international law.
The book explores two concepts of modernity: one referring to the post-medieval ages and the other to our times. It discusses the connections between the challenges that the New World posed for XVIth century thinkers and those that we are currently facing, for example those related to the cyberworld. It also addresses the idea of international law and the legitimation of the use of force, two concepts that are at the core of Vitoria’s texts, in the context of “modern” problems related to a multipolar world and the war against terrorism.
This is not a historical book on Vitoria, but a very current one that argues the value of Vitoria’s reflections for contemporary issues of international law.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: At the Origins of Modernity
Book Subtitle: Francisco de Vitoria and the Discovery of International Law
Editors: José María Beneyto, Justo Corti Varela
Series Title: Studies in the History of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62998-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62997-1Published: 08 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87449-4Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62998-8Published: 30 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2198-9842
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 217
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Legal History, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict