Relationship between the Eternal law and the Human law in Francisco Suárez work: the common good

• Main Author: María Isabel LAFUENTE GUANTES
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2017-12-01
• Series: Azafea: Revista de Filosofía
• Subjects: Ley; orden; moral; acción; razón; person; derecho; justicia; política; bien común.
• Online Access: http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0213-3563/article/view/14815

This article shows Francisco Suárez’s conception of the eternal law, the natural law and of the human law. It also analyzes their different characteristics, and its relation with Suárez understanding of the <em>common good</em>. For me, the relation between law and natural law constitutes the basis to give solution to the nominalistic conflicts of the period. Those conflicts went so far as to deny the existence of <em>true justice</em> in the civil law, and to understand that morality, being a fiction of <em>human</em> nature, is the necessary condition in order that the civil law and the legal right achieve the common good in society.