Abstract

CONTRERAS, Sebastián. The Determination of Law in Medieval Philosophy. Antecedents of the Thomist doctrine in Albert the Great and projections in Giles of Rome. Scripta Mediaevalia [online]. 2017, vol.10, n.2, pp.33-55. ISSN 1851-8753.

Aquinas understands determination as the way in which positive law derives from natural law. This derivation isn’t deductive nor scientific. It’s, so to speak, artistic. Although Aquinas is the philosopher who elaborates a general theory of determination, that form of derivation had already been exposed by Albert the Great. In this paper we will make an account of the Albertine explanation of determination, as well as the way in which Giles of Rome develops the doctrine of Aquinas.

Keywords : Aquinas; Albert the Great; Giles of Rome.

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