The concept of “life” in the classical philosophy of International Law (T. Hobbes, G. Grotius, D. Vico)

The period of transformation of the international system that we are currently experiencing makes it necessary to search for different or new approaches to the subject of international legal regulation. Modern International Law should be interpreted primarily as intercivilizational law. In this context, it is necessary to consider the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the complex doctrine of vital rights of humans, peoples and states, which is important and essential for understanding the main issues of the philosophy of International Law in the new conditions. If the sovereign of T. Hobbes usurps the idea of life, and in the theory of G. Grotius elements of international sociality appear in terms of the diversity of sovereign “ways of life”, then the anthropological and civilizational approach of D. Vico to the content and essence of the “law of peoples” contains initial attempts to go beyond linear and universalist logics of the Enlightenment, which determined the future pro-colonial discourses in the science of International Law, the criticism of which becomes relevant in modern conditions of the international crisis.