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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 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 May 2020 → …Profesor invitado, Maestría en Derecho de la Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia)
1 Feb 2019 → 1 Mar 2019Keywords
- 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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Projects
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“Una revisión del signo formal en Juan Poinsot: ¿Explicación válida del concepto?”
1/04/18 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
Research output
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Fernando de Roa y la recepción de la filosofía práctica de Aristóteles
Contreras, S., 29 Jun 2019, In: Topicos (Mexico). 57, p. 349-374 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Marriage and natural rights according to Alonso de Veracruz (1507-1584)
Assimakópulos, A. & Contreras, S., 1 Jan 2017, In: Revista de Estudios Historico-Juridicos. 39, p. 173-193 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Scientific review › peer-review
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Practical reason and first principle of the natural law in Suárez
Contreras, S., 1 Jan 2017, In: Scientia et Fides. 5, 1, p. 187-204 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Scientific review › peer-review
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Suárez, natural law and contemporary criticism
Contreras, S., 1 Jul 2017, In: Topicos (Mexico). 53, p. 255-272 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Aquinas about the determination of law: Fundamental presuppositions and receiving his doctrine by Francisco Suárez
Contreras, S., 1 May 2015, In: Pensamiento. 71, 267, p. 675-688 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review