Una versión del "estado de naturaleza" en la España del siglo XVIIIel texto de Joaquín Marín y Mendoza

Abstract

Joaquín Marín y Mendoza, a court attorney in the 1770s, historian of Natural Law and member of the Royal Academy of History, was the author of the dissertation on the "state of nature", De statu hominum naturali, which is offered here in the original Latin and in a Spanish translation entitled El estado natural del hombre. The text is accompanied by a biographical introduction, as well as a general study of the present discourse on the State of Nature, in which the modern sources of the text are analysed: Hobbes, R. Cumberland, Juan Francisco Finetti or Samuel Pufendorf. J. Marín subscribed to the moderate iusnaturalist theonomic trend and tried to follow the principles of Christian phibosophy and to enrich it with the contributions of modern phibosophy.