The pervivence of suarecianos´s concept of law in Munguía´s thinking (1810-1868)

Abstract

Clemente de Munguía (1810-1868) was a Mexican philosopher. His natural-law thought (jus naturalism) was historicist  and scholastic,  and had an influence  of Francisco  Suárez (1548-1617). His view makes him an advanced neoscholastic thinker, whose thought exalts the  f igure  of Francisco  Suarez.  His  leading  figure  and  his  work  turned  out  to be more interesting  due to the historical  moment  in which  he lived that coincided  with Mexico’s independence,  and the expansion  of legal positivisms in Europe and America.  In spite of that, Munguía’s  thought shows the survival of Suarez’s work, one of most important  Hispanic legal thinkers.