Estado, derecho natural y politicidad barroca. Hacia una reinterpretación del pensamiento político de la Escuela de Salamanca

Abstract

The tendency of political analysis in Mexico and Latin America is to use the principles and conceptual foundations of Anglo-Saxon tradition of liberal thought as transcendent horizon of construction and interpretation of reality. According to this view, the Mexican State is characterized by its inability to guarantee political and social processes that contribute to the consolidation of democracy, due to its unsurpassed legacy of colonial and undemocratic social practices promoted during the pr i regime. But this is not the only way to build and interpret the specificity of the Mexican State. There is an old and forgotten tradition of political thought founded by the School of Salamanca on the notion of natural law, which permits to construct and interpret differently the character of Latin American baroque. This paper shows briefly some general notions from which it can be done this conceptual construction of the political nature of Latin American baroque.