The Library
1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1501–1600
2 works
lectures 1539
Latin
De Indis
Francisco de Vitoria · c. 1483–1546
A dismantling of every justification offered for the conquest — discovery, papal grant, sin, unbelief — concluding that the Indians were true owners of their lands.
lectures 1539
Latin
De Iure Belli
Francisco de Vitoria · c. 1483–1546
When war may be waged, by whom, and within what limits — including that difference of religion is no just cause and that the innocent may never be deliberately killed.
1601–1700
1 work
1625
Latin
De Iure Belli ac Pacis
Hugo Grotius · 1583–1645
A law of nations grounded in a natural law that would hold, he says, even if we granted that there is no God — with rules on just cause, prisoners, and non-combatants.
3 of 1780 works