On the Rights of War and Peace

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to be more Holy nature, reflecting on God himself cannot escape his own intelligence, natural laws created by God are independent of God itself, which is why galoshes that God cannot change the laws of nature.

As a divine law, natural law

Clearing up after the relationship between divine law and natural law, we found in the Grotius’s view of natural law reflects the reason and the will of God (natural law also reflects the human reason, but the ultimate source of human reason from the reason and the will of God). So far, it is difficult to reach the Grotius strip the natural law and the will of God conclusion, and indeed, his arguments for the existence of natural law, is based on his faith in God.

"There are two proven methods of natural law to be confirmed, that is, transcendental method (a priori) proof and experience (a posteriori). "(Page 36) for Christians to, a priori the existence of natural law of God’s existence is not self-evident, and the conclusion is reliable and absolutely correct. However, Pagans or atheists, such proof is worthless. Funny thing is, Grotius, seems to recognize that, and his experience demonstrates the existence of natural law, does not refer to the examples in the Bible (although he subsequently discussed the legality of the war, still uses a lot of the Bible story). Grotius cited a lot of ancient Greece scholar’s comments on the "natural law is by all countries, or at least accepted by the relatively civilized countries", human judgment comes from its tendency to natural law and social nature, on the history and reality of this "total common sense of humanity" is there.

Thanks to the galoshes from the nature of human society to prove the existence of natural law basis, many scholars see here an accretion of hypothesis: "if (an impossible assumption) the Divine reason or no reason for God, whether angels, humans or other beings, due of rational behavior is guilty of violations. "[ Cited from M B. Crowe, The Hypothesis": A Paradox in Hugo Grotius, In Grotius and Modern Natural Law, Edited by Knud Haakonssen,Impious Datmouth, Ashgate, 1999, p.21.

Modern Chinese Zhu Xiao喆: Grotius and the modern transformation of the natural law tradition, in the Oriental law 2010 4th 91st, p. ] In other words, natural law is possible on the basis of the sound of a secular, rather than reason or will of God.

Human nature and Divine reason

Natural law of human nature to judge, apparently more acceptable to atheists, but its degree of difficulty the difficulty of not less than prove the existence of natural law. To prove that natural law derives from human nature, we must first determine the human being has the inherent nature, whether it is an individual or a social?

In the law of war and peace, Grotius emphasized: human characteristics is a strong desire for social networking, that is, a camp together with similar life-peace ’ guidelines-organized social life based on human reason-desire. This social tendency was stoic as "gregarious nature ’" (page 37). In subsequent discussion about the legality of war, Grotius pointed out that his view that each community should make an effort to protect individual things, including life, health, freedom, even in the system of laws and customs before the invention is required. Based on this, we can deduce that that human nature consists of only self-interested and altruistic component. So Grotius reason put forward is to make people and animals distinguish an important condition, it makes the people know how to grasp the nature of self-interest and altruism. So, instead of judging people by nature are social or individual, than back on the endowed of rational discussion.

When the question back on a rational discussion, and atheists will be faced with a problem without a solution-the human reason comes from. Evolutionary theory tells us in a period when people’s capacity for rational thought, thus completing the evolution from monkeys to man; people’s rational materialism will tell us, just a series of environmental change and the accidental product of genetic screening. We cannot know this line of reasoning is correct, because of deductive reasoning is the prerequisite to the right to the establishment of the necessary conditions, and to prove the premise is correct, and must prove the other premise is correct, so that they will get into circulation. In the interpretation of man’s thoughts and spirits can be called the miracle of change on this cold, mechanical and possibly the wrong way, people can not accept. So in my opinion, Grotius’s contribution to natural law thoughts development lies not only on the objective, he provides a natural law and divine possibility of separation, but also because he just right to use God as a transcendental freedom, self-evident there, natural law theory and logic integrity.

(At this point, received atheism education, I couldn’t help feeling their spiritual influence of religion on the lack of experience. This lack makes it hard for me to understand experiences of Christian or other Theists, skeptical about religion, nonbelievers with suspicion. However, as Mr Xiong Shili says: "truth after all bad, incorporeal truth cannot be treated as external objects. "[Xiong Shili: of the ten languages of the Liaoning education press, 1997, page 178th. ] A fundamental difference of Chinese metaphysics and metaphysics, and is reflected in China’s seamless indivisible metaphysical focus on me, and used in the West is on the way, that is, analysis of the volume and nature of things. This difference based on different understanding of truth, outside the Western metaphysical truth of things, rely on their knowledge to a pedestal; metaphysical truth as China is the common principle of life and the universe, human life and the nature of the universe, integration cannot be separated from each other, so without knowledge to reasoned it. [See guobing nine: the existence of natural law in Chinese traditional legal culture, in the legal forum, 2008, 1th, 84th. ] For explanation of natural law or many other phenomena, Chinese people do not demand in the religion.