Ideas of national sovereignty and international law

Abstract

This study aims to present the nascency and development of the ideas of national sovereignty and international law which are inextricably linked with the ideas for the attitude towards “the Other”. The main thesis in the article are supported with a historical narrative for events that created the nascency of legal norms in an international law. The main subtopics in the text are: equality or inequality: Las Casas – Hines de Sepulveda – Francisco de Vitoria; whether the discovered “Others” are humans and have the same rights – typology of attitude toward the “Other” – Michel de Montaigne and Charles Montesquieu; Jean Bodin’s ideas on national sovereignty and Francisco de Vitoria for international law.