THE THEORY OF NATURAL LAW AND SAAVEDRA FAJARDO

Authors

  • Iván García Rodríguez

Keywords:

Scepticism, Voluntarism, natural law, Catholicism, Protestantism, crisis

Abstract

The article defends that Saavedra, given his scepticism, his anthropological pessimism and his voluntarism, could have been an exponent of modern natural law if it had not been for his strong catholic beliefs he was not ready to relinquish. Otherwise his thinking was cleanly leading him to political principles very similar to those of protestant authors, which gave rise to natural law.

Issue

Section

Iusnaturalismo y razón católica