Affects, Emotions, and the Cartesian Epistemology of International Law.

One of the most influential intellectual battles in the history of ideas in the Western world took place in the 17th and 18th centuries and pitted a French mathematician against a Dutch philosopher. This short essay is certainly not the place to indulge in a counter-factual re-imagination of what international law would look like under the reign of a Spinozian epistemology. [Extracted from the article]