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the rights of war and peace book i natural law and enlightenment classics KnudHaakonssen GeneralEditor uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu i i i i i i i i natural law and i i enlightenment classics i i i i i i i i i The Rights of i i i i i War and Peace i i i i book i i i i i i i i Hugo Grotius i i i i i i i i EditedandwithanIntroductionby i i i RichardTuck i i i i FromtheeditionbyJeanBarbeyrac i i i i i MajorLegalandPoliticalWorksofHugoGrotius i i i i i i i i i i i i i i liberty fund i i i Indianapolis i i i i uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ThisbookispublishedbyLibertyFund,Inc.,afoundationestablishedto encouragestudyoftheidealofasocietyoffreeandresponsibleindividuals. Thecuneiforminscriptionthatservesasourlogoandasthedesignmotif forourendpapersistheearliest-knownwrittenappearanceoftheword “freedom”(amagi),or“liberty.”Itistakenfromaclaydocumentwritten about2300b.c.intheSumeriancity-stateofLagash. (cid:2)2005LibertyFund,Inc. Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 09 08 07 06 05 c 5 4 3 2 09 08 07 06 p 5 4 3 2 Frontispiece:PortraitofHugodeGrootbyMichielvanMierevelt,1608; oilonpanel;collectionofHistoricalMuseumRotterdam,onloanfrom theVanderMandeleStichting.Reproducedbypermission. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Grotius,Hugo,1583–1645. [Dejurebelliacpacislibritres.English] Therightsofwarandpeace/HugoGrotius; editedandwithanintroductionbyRichardTuck. p. cm.—(Naturallawandenlightenmentclassics) “MajorlegalandpoliticalworksofHugoGrotius”—T.p.,v.1. Includesbibliographicalreferences. isbn0-86597-432-2(set:hard) isbn0-86597-436-5(set:soft) isbn0-86597-433-0(v.1:hc) isbn0-86597-437-3(v.1:sc) 1. Internationallaw. 2. Naturallaw. 3. War(Internationallaw). I. Tuck,Richard,1949– . II. Title. III. Series. kz2093.a3j8813 2005 341.6—dc22 2004044217 liberty fund, inc. 8335AllisonPointeTrail,Suite300 Indianapolis,Indiana46250-1684 contents volume 1 Introduction ix ANoteontheText xxxv Acknowledgments xxxix the rights of war and peace, book i 1 volume 2 the rights of war and peace, book ii 389 volume 3 the rights of war and peace, book iii 1185 Appendix:ProlegomenatotheFirstEdition ofDeJureBelliacPacis 1741 Bibliographyof PostclassicalWorksReferred tobyGrotius 1763 Bibliographyof WorksReferredtoinJean Barbeyrac’sNotes 1791 IndextoThisEdition 1815 introduction InthefamousdedicationofhisDiscourseontheOriginofInequalityto theRepublicofGeneva,Jean-JacquesRousseaudrewavividpictureof his father sitting at his watchmaker’s bench. “I see him still, living by the work of his hands, and feeding his soul on the sublimest truths.I seetheworksof Tacitus,Plutarch,andGrotius,lyingbeforehiminthe midstofthetoolsofhistrade.Athissidestandshisdearson,receiving, alas with too little profit, the tender instruction of the best of fa- thers....”Rousseau’sreminiscenceistestimonytotheauthoritywhich Grotius’sDeIureBelliacPacishadcometopossessinthecenturysince itwasfirstpublishedin1625;intheeyesof bothfatherandson,thebook hadthesamestandingasthegreatworksofclassicalantiquity.Rousseau wastodevotemuchofhislifetoacomplicatedandsubtlerepudiation of Grotius, but he never lost his sense of the book’s importance, de- scribing Grotius in Emile as “the master of all the savants”inpolitical theory(thoughheaddedthat,nevertheless,he“isbutachild,and,what isworse,adishonestchild,”andthat“truepoliticaltheoryisyettoap- pear, and it is to be presumed that it never will”).1 The same sense of Grotius’s importance, without any of Rousseau’sreservations,hadled theElectorPalatinein1661toendowachairintheUniversityofHei- delberg for the express purpose of providing a commentaryontheDe IureBelliacPacis,afactwhichisnotedintheLifeprefacedtothisedition; astheLifealsonotes,thebookwasissuedasafulleditionwithnotesby 1.Forthededication,seeTheSocialContractandDiscourses,trans.G.D.H.Cole, reviseded.J.H.BrumfittandJohnC.Hall(Everyman1973),34;forEmile,seeRous- seau,PoliticalWritings,ed.C.E.Vaughan(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,1915), 2:147. ix x introduction various commentators,2 “by which means our Author, within 50 Years afterhisDeath,obtainedanHonour,whichwasnotbestoweduponthe AncientstillaftermanyAges.”Theideathatthebookrepresentedsome- thingnewand importantforthemodernagewasrepeatedlyvoicedin the“historiesofmorality,”whichbegantoappearinthelateseventeenth century;Grotiuswasdescribedas“breakingtheice”afterthelongwinter ofancientandmedievalethics.3Bytheendoftheseventeenthcentury there had been twenty-six editions of the Latin text, and it had been translatedintoDutch(1626,reissuedthreetimesinthecentury),English (1654, reissued twice), and French(1687, reissuedonce).Itspopularity scarcely slackened in the eighteenth century: there were twenty Latin editions, six French, five German, two Dutch, two English, and one Italian(andoneRussian,circulatedinmanuscript).4 However,formanyeighteenth-centuryreadersthedefinitiveversion ofthebookhadappearedinLatinin1720,whenJeanBarbeyracissued a newedition, followed by aFrenchtranslationin1724withelaborate notes.5BarbeyracwasaleadingfigureintheFrenchProtestantdiaspora, the network of scholars whose families had been driven out of France following the revocation of the Edictof Nantesby LouisXIVin1685. Heworkedtirelesslytoputhisownversionofmodernnaturallawbefore theEuropeanpublic,andhiseditionsofGrotiusbuiltonthesuccessof a similarly elaborateeditionwhichhehadproducedofSamuelPufen- dorf’sDeIureNaturaeetGentiumin1706.Thenotestotheseeditions 2.Thiswastheeditionthatappearedin1691fromapressatFrankfurt-on-Oder, withcommentarybyGronovius,Boecler,Henniges,Osiander,andZiegler,names thatwillbecomefamiliarfromBarbeyrac’snotesinthisedition. 3.SeeBarbeyrac’sremarkinhisAnHistoricalandCriticalAccountoftheScience of Morality, prefaced to his edition of Pufendorf, The Law of Natureand Nations (London,1749),67. 4.ThisinformationisfromJ.terMeulenandP.J.J.Diermanse,Bibliographie des´ecritsimprim´esdeGrotius(TheHague,1950).Foranexemplarymodernedition of the Latin text, see B.J.A. De Kanter–van Hettinga Tromp’s 1939 edition,re- printed with extensive additional material by R. Feenstra and C.E. Persenaire (Aalen:ScientiaVerlag,1993). 5. Both the Barbeyrac Latin and French editions were from Amsterdam; the FrenchversionwasdedicatedtoGeorgeIofEngland.
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