Justice among Nations. A History of International Law - Stephen C. Neff

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Introduction

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2. Readers are fortunate, though, in being able to turn to Linda S. Frey and Marsha
   L. Frey, Th e History of Diplomatic Immunity (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University
   Press, 1999), for an excellent general history of that subject.


3. On the history of international law regarding war, see Stephen C. Neff , War and the
   Law of Nations: A General History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Part I. Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550)
Epigraph: Aristotle, Rhetoric (trans. by W. Rhys Roberts), in Th e Basic Works of Aris-
totle, ed. Richard McKeon, 1317– 1451 (New York: Random House, 1941), 1370.

1. Doing Justice to Others


2. Livy (Titus Livius), Th e Early History of Rome, trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt (Har-
   mondsworth: Penguin, 1960 [ca. 24 bc]), 288.


3. Arrian, Th e Campaigns of Alexander, trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt (Harmond-
   sworth: Penguin, 1971 [ca. ad 150]), 127– 28.


4. See, for example, Laurence R. Tancredi, Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience
   Reveals about Morality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 77– 81. On
   the asserted universality of ideas of sacredness, see Marcus Eliade, Patterns in Com-
   parative Religion, trans. Rosemary Sheed (Cleveland, OH: Meridian, 1958).


5. Genesis 11:1– 9.


6. Arthur Keith, A New Th eory of Human Evolution (London: Watts, 1948), 6– 7.


7. Herbert Spencer, Th e Principles of Ethics, vol. 1 (London: Williams and Norgate,
   1892), 134– 37.


8. Plu t a rc h , Life of Aristeides, trans. David Sansone (Warminster: Aris and Phillips,
   1989 [ca. ad 75]), 83.


9. Plato, Th e Republic, ed. G. R. F. Ferrari; trans. Tom Griffi th (Cambridge: Cam-
   bridge University Press, 2000 [ca. 380 bc]), 59.


10. See, for example, Helen Bernhard, Urs Fischbacher, and Ernst Fehr, “Parochial
    Altruism in Humans,” 442 Nature 912– 15 (2006).


11. Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, trans. Marjorie Latzke (London: Methuen,
    1966), 186.


12. Edward O. Wilson, Th e Social Conquest of Earth ( Ne w Yor k : W. W. Nor t on ,
    2012), 244.


13. Ibid., 244– 45.


14. Ibid., 61.