Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries
International Conference at Central European University, Budapest Central European University – Palacký University Olomouc – Grotiana Foundation
10-12 November 2016
Október 6. u. 7, Room 102
The organizers (Hans Blom, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Jana Engelbrechtová, Palacký University, Olomouc; László Kontler, Central European University) are grateful for the generous support of Central European University and Brill Publishers.
Thursday, 10 November
14:30-15:00 Welcome and introduction
15:00-16:00: Keynote
Arthur Eyffinger (Oberstaufen),”Natural law and national polity. The Leiden discourse on State and Church (1575-1625)”
16:00-16:30 coffee break
16:30-18:00 Protestant natural law: developments and challenges
Chair: Camilla Boisen (Johannesburg)
Mads Jensen (London), “'Without prophetic and apostolic voices': Niels Hemmingsen's On the law of nature according to a demonstrative method”
Tobias Schaffner (Zürich), "Natural law for the forum externum: De Jure Belli ac Pacis as Thomist ethics for peoples and their rulers"
18:00 Reception
Friday, 11 November
9:00-12:30 Protestant natural law: developments and challenges (ctd.)
Chair: Tobias Schaffner (Zürich)
Alberto Clerici (Rome), "Natural law and Scripture in the Calvinist monarchomachs"
József Simon (Szeged), “Challenges of universalism. Theologico-philosophical considerations of natural law by Transylvanian Antitrinitarians in the late 16th century”
10:30-11:00 coffee break
Dominique Bauer (Leuven), “Natural law and historicity in Francisco Suárez”
Stefanie Ertz (Potsdam), “Hugo Grotius's hermeneutics of natural and divine law”
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14.00-18.15 Grotius and political theology
Chair: Janne Nijman (Amsterdam)
William Bain (Singapore), “Hugo Grotius and the political theology of international order”
Jiří Chotaš (Prague), “The foundation of the law of nature in the Prolegomena”
15:30-16:00 coffee break
Laetitia Ramelet (Lausanne), “Grotius on fides and consent”
Johan Olsthoorn (Leuven), “Grotius on natural law and supererogation”
Hans Blom (Rotterdam), “Grotius’s brotherly advices of 1614-16 and Willem’s Enchyridion (1667)”
Saturday, 12 November
9:00-15:00 Transformations and receptions
Chair: József Simon (Szeged)
Laurens Winkel (Rotterdam), "Natural law and Hugo Grotius: some aspects"
Márton Szentpéteri (Budapest), “Faith and reason: the Herborn theory of cognition in Transylvania (1629-1658)”
10:30-11:00 coffee break
Adriana Luna-Fabritius (Helsinki), “Uses of Grotian strategies in early-modern Neapolitan political thought 1650-1712”
Jana Engelbrechtová (Olomouc), “Moravian reception of Grotius”
12:30-13:30 lunch
Chair: Adriana Luna-Fabritius (Helsinki)
Thomas Behme (Berlin): “Pufendorf’s Lutheranism”
Denis Ramelet (Neuchâtel),”Voluntarism, moral entities and natural law according to Pufendorf”
Heikki Haara (Helsinki), “Moral psychological aspects of Pufendorf’s concept of toleration”
15:45 Conclusions
This Conference has been made possible by the generous financial support of Central European University and Brill Publishers