La virtud de la justicia en la doctrina de Domingo de Soto

Abstract

Justice, according to Domingo de Soto, co-founderof the School of Salamanca, is the axis that links the/oivwith what is right, concepts that form the two cores of his De iustitia et iure. Justice, whose ultimate justification is provided by philosophy and theology, is a human virtue which seeks the proper relationship of two elements, and which strives to achieve equity, which is measured not by the agent's intention, but by its objective content. What is just is measured along two planes, that of the premise and that of the consequences, which correspond respectively to the law, and to what is right.