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Title: Juan de Lugo, and the concept of Justice.
Author: MONSALVE SERRANO Fabio
Juan de Lugo is commonly considered as the last great scholastic doctor. He writes around the XVIIth century at the same time as the natural law philosophers. Lugo´s work belongs undoubtedly to the scholastic tradition, but some specific ideas involve a transition thought, leading him closer to the natural law philosophers. Commutative justice rules economic relations in the scholastic paradigm. Natural law philosophers linked justice to the keeping or fulfilment of the contracts; not to the terms of the contract as scholasticism once claimed. The paper intends to present Lugo as a scholastic in transition. Not related to the core of his works, not to the methodology, not to the conclusions which are the very same as those of the previous doctors; but related to some ideas which question the main pillars of the scholastic tradition. Focus on to the question of justice in contracts, Lugo seems to be closer to the natural law philosophers. The second issue the paper intends to deal with is the anthropological conception of the human beings and their responsibilities as economic agents. The necoclassical homo oeconomicus is a non responsible agent. Following market’s law they will perform in the best way. This conception wasn´t the scholastic one, where the agents are responsible in their economic transactions.
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