La aportación de Francisco Suárez al concepto de propiedad de la tradición escolástica

Abstract

In this paper, an assessment is made of the doctrine of the property of Francisco Suarez in relation to scholastic tradition to which he belongs. We find aspects very similar to other scholastic authors such as the consequentialist defence of property or the limits to exclusivity in case of extreme necessity but there are also very novel aspects such as the justification of appropriation for labour in the state of nature. His doctrine also moves away from the Thomistic tradition when he analyses the category of appropriation as a permissive and prescriptive right at the same time, an attribute that confers exclusivity on the owner and endows his ideas with a great modernity.