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NATURAL LAW-INTERNATIONAL LAW - Coggle Diagram
NATURAL LAW-INTERNATIONAL LAW
Pacta sunt servanda
first important formula of natural law
treaties had to be respected, "promises must be fulfilled"
Ancient Greece
no sense of a world community
doctrine of two swords
most important doctrine
all authority derived from God
Natural Law
Sophocle's tragedy
most ancient definition of Natural Law
Antigone gave a decent funeral to his brother who has been banned by Creon
Antigone was caught and he stated that a mortal cannot overbear the unchangeable unwritten code of heaven, she could offer her brother a funeral because God did not forbid it, neither the justice gave such law
Spanish scholars of Salamanca
Francisco de Vitoria
leading figure
the Pope was not a universal lord
the Spanish King was not the king of the entire world
view in human rights: the native Indiands of the Americasmust be treated as owners of their property, they could not be forced to covert themselves to Christianity
employing of reason
legal principle of natural law
Grotius
most famous philosopher of Natural law
the essential problem
provide a law which could be binding on all nations
removal of the medieval dualism
Pope
Emperor
he identified law with reason
important to elaborate legal rational rules
only individuals were important
rejection of corporations
fundamental rules
making restitution of anytning of another's we've maintained
pacta sunt servanda
absentation from what belons to another
reparation for loss caused by fault