Lecture summary: There is a vacuum of philosophy to make sense of a world dominated by a disorderly global economy, by science and engineering, by ideologies, and by popular culture. There is a vacuum of law to bring order to relations between states that are more threatening than they have ever been. Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) re-thought everything in another difficult new world. Philip Allott’s Eutopia (2016) reclaims the best of human thought to empower us in making a better human world.
Philip Allott is Professor Emeritus of International Public Law at Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He was at one time a legal adviser in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His Eunomia. New Order for a New World (1990/2001) proposed a new general theory of International Law, as the true law of a true international society comprising all human societies and all human beings.
For more, see: http://trin-hosts.trin.cam.ac.uk/fellows/philipallott/
In July last year, he published Eutopia. New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World. That book uses the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as the starting-point for a similar overview of the present and possible future state of the human world, including the human world at the global level. His talk will draw attention to the essential features of this personal summa philosophica.
The Lauterpacht Centre Friday lecture series is kindly supported by Cambridge University Press
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Speaker: Professor Philip Allott, University of Cambridge Date: Friday, 20 January 2017 Time: 1pm Venue: Finley Library, Lauterpacht Centre, 5 Cranmer Rd, Cambridge |
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