Grotius
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Grotian adjective
- Grotianism noun
Example Sentences
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The likes of Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes, among others, had a substantial historical bearing on the theory’s development.
From Washington Post
People's rights to land have been debated by philosophers since at least John Locke and Hugo Grotius in the seventeenth century.
From Nature
Arguably, Thomas Jefferson, who had based his Declaration of Independence on a genuinely intimate familiarity with Locke, Vattel, Hobbes, Grotius, Rousseau and Montesquieu, was the most learned of all.
From US News
That is the lesson of the jurist Grotius and of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an elegant and useful lesson in practical philosophy.
From Newsweek
It was also an age of Dutch enlightenment, the age of Rembrandt, Spinoza, Grotius and Huygens.
From The Guardian
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