Hugo Grotius person
also: Grotius, Hugo, Hugo Grosch, Hugo de Groot
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Claims (16)
Hugo Grotius influenced
John Locke host_asserted
“He said, let's put some order to this if you're going to do it. So who did he influence? Well, how about Enlightenment figures like my all-time favorite, John Locke? John Locke lists Hugo Grotius as his number one influence. John Locke was …”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:19:36
Hugo Grotius influenced
Samuel Pufendorf host_asserted
“We will have to go to Locke a little bit more deeper, but today we have two of the people on my personal Mount Rushmore, Hugo Grotius and John Locke. Okay, who else did he influence? Oh, there's another fun guy to look up. Samuel Pofendorf.…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:20:44
Hugo Grotius influenced
League of Nations host_asserted
“really was the guy who influenced most modern international law and institutions. The League of Nations, which we don't like, and the United Nations, which we really don't like, actually drew from Groschen's ideas of collective security and…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:21:20
Hugo Grotius influenced
United Nations host_asserted
“really was the guy who influenced most modern international law and institutions. The League of Nations, which we don't like, and the United Nations, which we really don't like, actually drew from Groschen's ideas of collective security and…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:21:20
Francisco de Vitoria influenced
Hugo Grotius host_asserted
“They bastardized Grotius' ideas. Bastardized. It pisses me off. A guy by the name of Peter Borsberg suggests that Grotius was significantly influenced by a Francisco de Vitoria and the school of Salamanca in Spain. Something else to look up…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:22:23
Benjamin Franklin quoted
Hugo Grotius host_asserted
“Benjamin Franklin directly quotes that at the Constitutional Convention. On war and peace, he says, where there is no judge, there each man is judged for himself. He's explaining the right to self-defense that is in nature. That is one of o…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:24:07
Hugo Grotius influenced
Peace of Westphalia host_asserted
“The Thirty Years' War ends in what's called the Peace of Westphalia. Every single participant at that peace conference had a copy of his book as their manual, and it created the modern international cooperation system. Even though we've dis…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:27:52
Hugo Grotius influenced
Geneva Conventions host_asserted
“The Thirty Years' War ends in what's called the Peace of Westphalia. Every single participant at that peace conference had a copy of his book as their manual, and it created the modern international cooperation system. Even though we've dis…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:27:52
Hugo Grotius wrote
De Jure Belli ac Pacis documented
“Okay, this is just an absolutely brutal war all through Europe. Eight million people died, I did talk about it. And the brutality of that war just shocked his conscience. I mean, he's absolutely, he's seen this, he goes, this is awful. Mank…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:12:59
Hugo Grotius wrote
Jus in Bello host_asserted
“Maybe. Of course, we haven't declared war the way war is understood today. Again, I've talked about this a bit, but we need to redefine what a war is because we live in the age of fifth generation warfare. China's been fighting a war agains…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:15:41
Hugo Grotius wrote
Mare Liberum host_asserted
“I mean, war is bad, but if you're going to fight it, can we at least have some rules to protect the innocent? Right. Well, that all comes from Grotius. Great, great man. He's not done yet. He also wrote another book called Mare Libra, which…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:17:23
Hugo Grotius inspired
Karl Marx host_asserted
“the debt, and here we sit. There's a comment in there. Cognitive Nomad says, time to add Hugo to the pamphlets we're making for the local schools. Please do that. Please. Hopefully homeschoolers do the same. It's just stuff people need to k…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:31:03
Hugo Grotius inspired
G.W.F. Hegel host_asserted
“the debt, and here we sit. There's a comment in there. Cognitive Nomad says, time to add Hugo to the pamphlets we're making for the local schools. Please do that. Please. Hopefully homeschoolers do the same. It's just stuff people need to k…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:31:03
Hugo Grotius inspired
John Locke host_asserted
“the debt, and here we sit. There's a comment in there. Cognitive Nomad says, time to add Hugo to the pamphlets we're making for the local schools. Please do that. Please. Hopefully homeschoolers do the same. It's just stuff people need to k…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:31:03
The Law of Nations derived_from
Hugo Grotius host_asserted
“And it says, The Law of Nations is a must-read. He's talking about Vettel's Law of Nations. There were three copies of The Law of Nations on the floor of Philadelphia, two of them in the original French. Vettel's Law of Nations is, and you'…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:34:13
Hugo Grotius spied_on
John Locke host_asserted
“They put themselves into a state of war with the people who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience. Pretty profound stuff. Yeah. So who was he influenced by? Where did he get these ideas from? Some pretty important guys. Now, whe…”
▶ The Shadow State 68 Fabian Socialists Pt. 1 @ 26:22
Mentions (28)
▶ 1:09:47
Give or take. His ideas, written with a quill, would shape pretty much everything we live through today. He's one of the major shapers. And he's standing right in the heart of the Dutch Renaissance and their golden age of the Dutch Republic…
▶ 1:10:18
He's on my personal Mount Rushmore. Born 1853. I'll get to that. Why do we care about Hugo? Born 1583. Lived till 1645. So those two overlap by a little bit. He's still teaching until 1645. And when Spinoza is a teenager. So Spinoza grows u…
▶ 1:10:51
You look at his Wikipedia entry and it describes him as a Dutch humanist, diplomat, a lawyer, a theologian, a jurist, a statesman, a poet, and a playwright. Kind of a Renaissance guy, yeah? He is the man who shaped the nature of how all nat…
▶ 1:11:28
Kind of a big deal, yeah? Yeah. So how'd he get there? Well, he was a teenage prodigy who was educated at a place called Leiden University. His radical thinking got him in trouble, and he gets imprisoned in a place called Lovenstein Castle …
▶ 1:11:57
I was going to say, how do you get imprisoned in what is supposed to be the free thought area? You piss off the powers that be. He became considered an enemy of the state. So he escapes. And it's kind of a cool story how he did it. His wife…
▶ 1:12:30
And she'd go home, come back a week later. After several weeks of this, she shows up with an empty chest. Hugo, Grotius, climbs in the chest. The guards even carry him down to the docks. He sails across the water and goes into exile in Fran…
▶ 1:12:59
Okay, this is just an absolutely brutal war all through Europe. Eight million people died, I did talk about it. And the brutality of that war just shocked his conscience. I mean, he's absolutely, he's seen this, he goes, this is awful. Mank…
▶ 1:13:30
This lays the foundations for what we now know as natural law. Hugo Grosch's people created natural law. He had something called the just war theory. And we'll get to that in a minute. But what he wrote, this is a quote, he says, I saw in t…
▶ 1:14:02
divine or human. What this book did is it placed legal handcuffs on the kings and generals of Europe. Think about that. Changed the morality of war altogether. He crafted an argument that destroyed the concept of what was always the case be…
▶ 1:14:40
Tell me if you agree with this or not. Self-defense, recovery of stolen property, or to punish a crime. Conquest and glory are not valid reasons. They are crimes. Well, I wish somebody would have listened to him. Well, we did, to some degre…
▶ 1:15:09
I know, but that's what I'm saying. How many wars of conquest have we been baited into? I mean, let's look at the entire 20th century. Yes, that's my point. I mean, what did he say was legitimate use of war? He said self-defense, recovery o…
▶ 1:16:14
And this one's called Jus in Bella, which means the law in war. This is what forced people. Formally, the entire civilized world had to now distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. Now that's pretty much followed to this day. That…
▶ 1:16:52
Yeah, I would say so. We could have used him on a couple of those committees. Yeah. The Catholic Church banned his teachings and his books because they wanted to continue to be the gatekeeper of morality. There's a king, Adolphus of Sweden,…
▶ 1:17:23
I mean, war is bad, but if you're going to fight it, can we at least have some rules to protect the innocent? Right. Well, that all comes from Grotius. Great, great man. He's not done yet. He also wrote another book called Mare Libra, which…
▶ 1:17:57
He had some incentive to do that because the Dutch East India Company wanted there to be order on the open seas. Right? Right. So he basically formalized all that into a book, gets shared all over Europe, and people pretty much followed thi…
▶ 1:18:27
So philosophically, what he did is he secularized natural law by arguing that moral principles exist independently of religion or divine command. That's a core belief in humanism, and it is not exclusive of Christianity in any way, shape, o…
▶ 1:19:01
like Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suarez. We can go into detail on them. People, you want to look up some great thinkers, look up Thomas Aquinas, A-Q-U-I-N-A-S, and another one named Francisco Suarez. He also studied the Stoics and the clas…
▶ 1:19:36
He said, let's put some order to this if you're going to do it. So who did he influence? Well, how about Enlightenment figures like my all-time favorite, John Locke? John Locke lists Hugo Grotius as his number one influence. John Locke was …
▶ 1:20:44
We will have to go to Locke a little bit more deeper, but today we have two of the people on my personal Mount Rushmore, Hugo Grotius and John Locke. Okay, who else did he influence? Oh, there's another fun guy to look up. Samuel Pofendorf.…
▶ 1:21:20
really was the guy who influenced most modern international law and institutions. The League of Nations, which we don't like, and the United Nations, which we really don't like, actually drew from Groschen's ideas of collective security and…
▶ 1:21:52
They took his idea and bastardized it. And it's okay to have sovereign states cooperating under a shared law. That sounds orderly to me. Right. He's the father of that. One of the very first shows the colonel and I did was on the corporate …
▶ 1:22:23
They bastardized Grotius' ideas. Bastardized. It pisses me off. A guy by the name of Peter Borsberg suggests that Grotius was significantly influenced by a Francisco de Vitoria and the school of Salamanca in Spain. Something else to look up…
▶ 1:22:57
What a great idea. Yes. We the people? Correct. That's where it comes from, from Grotius through Francisco de Vitoria in the school of Salamanca in Spain. Bizarre concept, huh? No more divine right to rule? Let me give you some quotes befor…
▶ 1:23:35
On natural law and justice, he says, What God has willed is law, one of his foundational statements linking natural law to divine will. He says, The law of nature is so unalterable that God himself cannot change it. That's from the Law of W…
▶ 1:24:07
Benjamin Franklin directly quotes that at the Constitutional Convention. On war and peace, he says, where there is no judge, there each man is judged for himself. He's explaining the right to self-defense that is in nature. That is one of o…
▶ 26:22
They put themselves into a state of war with the people who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience. Pretty profound stuff. Yeah. So who was he influenced by? Where did he get these ideas from? Some pretty important guys. Now, whe…
▶ 26:52
He's the guy who really shaped the nature of how nations interact with each other. He was a lawyer, spent his life in exile because he was an enemy of the state. But he's known as the father of international law. And basically, he's the guy…
▶ 27:24
He's the guy who created Jus in Bella, the law in war. So that's just one of the big, big influences on our boy John Locke. Another big influence was one of my favorite names in history, Samuel von Poffendorf. Poffendorf is a German jurist,…