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The idea of universal community in Francisco Suárez

Authors :
Pedro Calafate
Source :
Antiguos Jesuitas en Iberoamérica, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 48-65 (2017)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Centro de Investigaciones sobre Cultura y Sociedad, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2017.

Abstract

We study how Suárez deepened a tradition decisive to strengthen the idea of universal community of supra-state nature, based on moral rules superior to the sover-eignty of the states, on the dignity of the human person, on the unit of the Human genre, on the universal common good and natural equality of the sovereigns of the world, both from the point of view of the domain of jurisdiction and of the property, supported by democratic conceptions about the origin of civil power. A concept of a community not only international but universal was thus affirmed, while the legitimacy of indigenous sovereignties in the New World was undermined, because civil power did not lie in faith or charity, but in natural reason and in sociability of men.

Details

Language :
Spanish; Castilian
ISSN :
23143908
Volume :
5
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Antiguos Jesuitas en Iberoamérica
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.faad330cd8af41efabe4b3c42725bd3a
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.31057/2314.3908.v5.n2.17763