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SEBASTIÁN CONTRERAS AGUIRRE is full-time professor of Legal Philosophy in the Law School at the Universidad de los Andes (Chile). He received his BA in Philosophy and Social Sciences from the Catholic University of Chile (2010) and completed two PhDs in Philosophy, first at the Universidad de los Andes (2013) and afterwards at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2015).
Research Interests
Contreras also works on theories of corrective justice in the Aristotelian Scholastic tradition, the classical natural law theory (Aristotle, Aquinas, Second-Scholasticism and Protestant-Scholasticism), the nature of practical reason, and the transition from Late-Scholasticism to Modern Natural Law, especially the influence of the late-scholastics in the theories of Grotius, Pufendorf and Wolff.
External positions
Profesor invitado, Doctorado en Derecho de la Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile)
1 Feb 2019 → 1 May 2020
Profesor invitado, Maestría en Derecho de la Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia)
1 Feb 2019 → 1 May 2020
Keywords
- K Law (General)
- Legal Theory
- Legal Philosophy
- Commutative Justice
- History of Law
- B Philosophy (General)
- Legal Philosophy
- Second Scholasticism
- Natural Law Theory
- Francisco Suárez
- Hugo Grotius
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FONDECYT REGULAR - 1180510: “¿Puede llamarse voluntarista al modelo suareciano de justificación del derecho? Francisco Suárez en el contexto de la discusión entre racionalistas y voluntaristas"
Contreras A., S. (Principal Investigator)
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID), Chile
1/04/18 → 15/04/22
Project: Research
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“Francisco Suárez y el derecho natural como orden normativo. A propósito del debate contemporáneo sobre la normatividad de la naturaleza"
Contreras A., S. (Principal Investigator)
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID), Chile
20/11/15 → 30/10/17
Project: Research
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LA DETERMINACION DEL DERECHO EN DOMINGO DE SOTO, FRAY LUIS DE LEON Y FRANCISCO SUAREZ. LA RESPUESTA DE LA CIENCIA JURIDICA NEOESCOLASTICA ANTE LA PARABOLA DE LA IRRELEVANCIA DEL DERECHO Y LA INSUFICIENCIA DE LOS PRINCIPIOS DE JUSTICIA NATURAL
Contreras A., S. (Principal Investigator) & Miranda Montecinos, A. (Sponsoring Researcher)
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID), Chile
15/11/13 → 14/11/15
Project: Research
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El derecho natural en la escolástica 1526-1617
Miranda Montecinos, A. & Contreras, S., 2023, In: Araucaria. 25, 54, p. 467-491Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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El derecho natural en la escolástica 1526-16171
Translated title of the contribution :The Natural Law in the Scholasticism 1526-1617 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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WAS HUGO GROTIUS A RATIONALIST?
Contreras, S. A., 2023, In: Filozofia. 78, 8, p. 619-633 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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El derecho natural en los comentarios latinos a la Ethica Nicomachea
Translated title of the contribution :Natural Law in the Latin Commentaries to the Ethica Nicomachea Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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El salario justo en los teólogos jesuitas de la segunda escolástica: Luis de Molina, Francisco Suárez y Juan de Lugo
Translated title of the contribution :The fair salary in the jesuit theologians of the second scholasticism: Luis de Molina, Francisco Suárez and Juan de Lugo Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access