LA TEORIA DEL DERECHO NATURAL Y SAAVEDRA FAJARDO

The article defends that Saavedra, given his scepticism, his anthropological pessimism and his voluntarism, could have been an exponent of modern natural law if it had not been for his strong catholic beliefs he was not ready to relinquish. Otherwise his thinking was cleanly leading him to political principles very similar to those of protestant authors, which gave rise to natural law.El artículo defiende que Saavedra, dado su escepticismo, su pesimismo antropológico y su voluntarismo, podría haber sido un exponente del derecho natural moderno de no ser por las firmes creencias católicas a las que no estaba dispuesto a renunciar. De otro modo, su pensamiento le llevaba de forma sencilla a principios políticos muy similares a los de los autores protestante, que dieron lugar al derecho natura