Abstract
According to Francisco Suárez, human nature is the ultimate foundation of politics and of civil obedience. In virtue of his similarity to God, the human legislator participates in that dominion. This one, in turn, constitutes the legislator’s moral faculty to order and impose laws to his fellow kind, since his will is a fundamental condition so that citizens, united in a mystic body, can reach their natural end. In this way, the legislator receives his power from the men’s community so as to oblige them through laws. These ones do not only refer to common good, but they should also be given in proportion to human knowledge. So as to do this, laws should be promulgated efficiently through an act of speech that evokes obligation and which transmits the legislator’s will to the community in a sensible way. The sensible elaboration of the legal formula comes next, which allows the legislator’s intention to permeate the subjects’ minds to engender moral duty.References
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