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judge advocate general of the Spanish armies that invaded the Netherlands in 1566,
Balthazar Ayala, echoed the famed author of In Praise of Folly (1511), pleadings for
an end to superstition and altercation, and the resurrection of restraint, law, international treaties, they were all to no avail. It would take the Dutch Jurist Hugo Grotius
(1583–1645) to concretize any plausible sense of a global codification of ethics,
setting certain ground rules that would ultimately prepare the way for international
environmental treaties.
3
3 See Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis libri tres -On the Law of War and Peace, Paris, 1625,
English translation under same title, by F. W. Kesey, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK 1925.
Fig. 34.1 Don Quixote, Engraving, Frontispiece by Gustave Doré, from the two-volume 1863
French Edition, L’ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte De La Manche, by Miguel De Cervantès
Saavedra, Librairie De L., Hachette, et Co. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
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judge advocate general of the Spanish armies that invaded the Netherlands in 1566,
Balthazar Ayala, echoed the famed author of In Praise of Folly (1511), pleadings for
an end to superstition and altercation, and the resurrection of restraint, law, international treaties, they were all to no avail. It would take the Dutch Jurist Hugo Grotius
(1583–1645) to concretize any plausible sense of a global codification of ethics,
setting certain ground rules that would ultimately prepare the way for international
environmental treaties.
3
3 See Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis libri tres -On the Law of War and Peace, Paris, 1625,
English translation under same title, by F. W. Kesey, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK 1925.
Fig. 34.1 Don Quixote, Engraving, Frontispiece by Gustave Doré, from the two-volume 1863
French Edition, L’ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte De La Manche, by Miguel De Cervantès
Saavedra, Librairie De L., Hachette, et Co. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
34 The Dream of Don Quixote