The elaboration of the notion of «pure natural state» in Francisco Suárez’s 'Tractatus de gratia'. The view of André de Muralt
Abstract
Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) has provided the modern political philosophers with the
notion of «pure natural state» as endowed with its own objective reality, a key conceptual tool that they
were going to use in order to develop their political and juridical thought. In this paper we follow the
trail of two medieval sources that Suárez has used in the elaboration of this notion: the grace’s Christian
theology and the formal distinction ex natura rei from Duns Scotus.
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