My paper which, two weeks ago, was on Grotius and slavery, is now a paper on humanitarian intervention and customary international law. With no Grotius or slavery. This is an academic Ship-of-Achilles: at what point did it stop being the original paper?
I will, however, eventually write the Grotius-on-slavery paper, which I think has significant implications for his idea of human relationships and the role of natural law (not that big!).
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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