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British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 303-307

  Mautner, Thomas ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 61249581388     PISSN: 09608788     EISSN: 14693526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960878032000104886     Document Type: Note

References (6)

1. The Rights of War and Peace, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
2. In earlier publications, e.g. 'The "modern" theory of natural law' in: A. Pagden (ed.), The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1987), Tuck makes similar claims about the central role of self-interest in Grotius's theory.
3. Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace, op.cit., p. 95; the view of Grotius as a war-enthusiast is surprising.
4. In 'Grotius on scepticism and self-interest'. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 78 (1996) pp. 27-47.
5. Tuck, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, op.cit. p. 99.
6. A high level of accuracy cannot be taken for granted. To mention just one example among many: in Tuck's Natural Rights Theories p. 53, note 50, mercenarium habere ius locandi operas suas is translated 'a merchant has the ius to sell his wares'. Now, mercenarius means (wage-) labourer, and operas means labours. As Lady Bracknell might have put it, an error like this may be regarded as unfortunate, but to let it remain reprinted six times over two decades looks like carelessness.