The ciceronian tradition of ius naturae in the diffusion of the bonum : the lecture of Philip The Chancellor

Abstract

From the beginning of the 13th century, the discussion which surrounded the explanation of causality in the world –from the point of view of philosophical analysis– and, within that specific context, the speculation surrounding the composition of its nature (whether considered as a whole, or considered within the plurality and diversity of the beings the world sustains), was a quaestio that occupied the Masters of Paris. Proof of this can be found in Philip the Chancellor´s Summa, written at the beginning of the 13th century...