Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Kirstin Bunge , Marco J. Fuchs , Danaë Simmermacher and Anselm Spindler -- 1 Die Referenzautoren der Schule von Salamanca und andere Vorläufer im Mittelalter / Matthias Kaufmann -- 2 The Significance of the Law (lex) for the Relationship between Individual and State in Luis de Molina (1535–1600) / Danaë Simmermacher -- 3 Salas contra Suárez on the Origins of Political Power / Benjamin Slingo -- 4 Tomás Sánchez and Late Scholastic Thought on Marriage and Political Virtue / Christoph P. Haar -- 5 The Concept of ius gentium: Some Aspects of Its Doctrinal Development from the ‘School of Salamanca’ to the Universities of Coimbra and Évora / Paula Oliveira e Silva -- 6 Gabriel Vázquez über das Naturrecht / Isabelle Mandrella -- 7 Is Francisco Suárez a Natural Law Ethicist? / Tobias Schaffner -- 8 Law, Natural Law, and the Foundation of Morality in Francisco de Vitoria and Francisco Suárez / Anselm Spindler -- 9 Das Notrecht in der grotianischen Naturrechtstheorie und seine spätscholastischen Quellen / Dominik Recknagel -- 10 Intellekt, Wunsch und Handlung: Handlungsproduktion und Handlungsrechtfertigung bei Francisco Suárez / Alejandro G. Vigo -- 11 Metaphysics and Psychology of the Making of Law in Francisco Suárez / Mauricio Lecón -- Index.

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Scholarship on the moral and political philosophy of the ‘School of Salamanca’ has either long been emphasizing the discontinuity between medieval and modern philosophy and the way this discontinuity is represented in the works of these authors or discussing issues of moral justification that are often seen as the heart of early modern practical philosophy. This volume offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the concept of law. This allows for an in-depth analysis of a variety of normative issues in the authors’ moral and political thought. It also suggest a more continuous picture of the transition from medieval to modern philosophy and proposes a more nuanced view of the importance of political concepts in the authors’s practical philosophy.