Creating Justice in an Emerging World The Natural Law Basis of Francisco de Vitoria’s Political and International Thought

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ID11148239
AuthorsLuis Valenzuela Vermehren (Universidad Católica de Temuco, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume66
Issue163
Pages39-64
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIdeas y Valores (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0120-0062 • E-ISSN: 2011-3668
PublisherUniversidad Nacional de Colombia (PUBLISHER • CO)
DOI10.15446/ideasyvalores.v66n163.49770
OpenAlexW2604234073
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

This article outlines Francisco de Vitoria’s conception of natural law and natural right in an effort to amend a number of interpretations in the academic literature on his political and international thought that misapprehend Vitoria’s iusnaturalism. In this view, his use of the Thomist doctrine of natural law and justice lays the founda­tion for his works on politics, society and international relations since the doctrine itself espouses equality and justice both within the domestic realm and between discrete communities. In an implicit appeal to the link between ethics and politics, his doctrine of natural law, moreover, fulfills a critical and constitutional role by designating justice and the common good as a pattern of order to which power and authority must conform in order to be legitimate

Appeal · Comparative law · Doctrine · Economic Justice · Economics · Law and economics · Natural (archaeology) · Natural justice · Natural law · Natural order · Order (exchange) · Philosophy of law · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Realm · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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