 There is scholarly dispute about the originality of Grotius’ ethics. Irwin (2008) has recently argued that because he merely extracts the major elements of his theory of morality from other authors, especially Aquinas and Suarez, “Grotius is no pioneer” in the history of ethics (98). By contrast, Schneewind (1993) thinks that Grotius deserves credit for introducing agonism into ethics—the notion that