Francisco Suarez lived from 1548 to 1617, a Spanish Jesuit philosopher and jurist of the School of Salamanca whose treatise De Legibus ac Deo Legislatore (1612) offered one of the most systematic early-modern accounts of natural law, positive law and the law of nations. Building on and extending the work of his fellow Salamancan Francisco de Vitoria, he argued that the law of nations rests on the consent and customary practice of the community of states rather than on natural law alone, a position that influenced the later secular natural-law tradition of Grotius and Pufendorf.
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RoleJurist and natural law theorist 2 Nationality / Jurisdiction Classification
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, nationality there.
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1. Francisco Suárez (Wikipedia)
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He is considered the godfather of international law.
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica
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In theology, Suárez wrote apologetic works defending the Christian state and explored man's salvation through works, supporting the Congruist movement. His political theory, outlined in De Legibus, refuted the divine-right theory of kings, asserting that political authority originates from the people, influencing the concept of natural rights.
Wikidata: Francisco Suarez
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