Et certe opera Deus facit mediantibus causis secundis”: fray Luis de León y la determinación del derecho

Abstract

Luis de León is one of the most important figures of so called Scholastic of Salamanca. In his work, that is the culmination of the Augustinian school of the sixteenth century, are present the most different activities (jurist, prose writer, theologian, poet, etc.) and the most different schools of thought (Thomism, Nominalism, Humanism, etc.). The legal philosophy of León, which is what interests us now, has been apparently overshadowed by his reputation as a writer and mystic. But this does not make his work as jurist in not valuable. On the contrary, the legal ideas of Spanish thinker represent one of principal pieces of Theological School of Salamanca