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  • 1 - Science and Law in the Seventeenth Century

  • Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Book:
    Space and Fates of International Law
    Published online:
    20 August 2020
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 9-25

  • Summary

    The chapter describes the general background of science and law in the seventeenth century. It highlights main philosophical debates of this century and their link to religion. It highlights search for ’new philosophies’, as well as emergance of mechanical philosophies. The centrality of the geometrical method in this century is highlighted as well as its influence on both Leibniz and Hobbes. In relation to Leibniz this method was radically transformed and advanced into the project of scientia generalis and characteristica universalis. Political instability and search for peace are the main genral features of the period, which is still characterised by fragmented and multilayered legal landscape.