Modern iusnaturalism through the Political Economy: The “Quotations to Genovesi” by Ramon de Salas

Authors

  • Jesús Astigarraga Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i9.147

Keywords:

Natural Law, A. Genovesi, R. de Salas, University of Salamanca, Spanish Enlightenment

Abstract

Ramón de Salas, professor at the University of Salamanca, was the author of the manuscript "Notes To Genovesi", which actually was a large rejoinder  to the famous Genovesi's Lezioni di Commerzo  (1765-1767). The manuscriptpt, conceived during the second half of the 1780´s decade, displays a rough criticism of  Lezioni's economic ideas, which was the main topic tackled by Genovesi's work, but at the same time, however, a wide number of legal and political critical comments are clearly identified.  This work analyses the ideas on Natural Law used by Salas to anwser Genovesi back and the close proximity among the rationalist, individualists and utilitarian approaches and Sala's one, what it was not very usual in the Spanish Enlightenment. Therefore, the crucial role played by certain treatises on Political Economy to spread more than strictly economical ideas out is demonstrated.

 Submission date: 06/09/2007
Acceptance date: 17/11/2008

Author Biography

Jesús Astigarraga, Universidad de Zaragoza

Profesor Titular de Economía Aplicada de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Director Científico del Instituto Internacional X. M. de Munibe de Estudios del Siglo XVIII.  Investigador en Historia del Pensamiento Económico. Entre otras cuestiones, trabaja en la actualidad sobre los fundamentos políticos del proceso de emergencia de la Economía Política. Ha codirigido la colección Clásicos de Historia del Pensamiento Económico Vasco. Ha reeditado las obras de diferentes ilustrados españoles, como N. de Arriquíbar, F. de Villarreal, X. M. de Munibe, F. J. de Argáiz y J. M. Magallón. Su último libro es: Los ilustrados vascos (Barcelona, Crítica, 2003). Ha publicado artículos en las principales revistas de su especialidad, entre otras, Revista de Historia Económica, Revista de Historia Industrial, Historia Agraria, Revista de Economía Aplicada, Investigaciones de Historia Económica, Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, Storia del Pensiero Economico, Storia del Pensiero Economico (nuova serie), Trimeste, History of Economic Ideas o Cyber Review of Modern Historiography.

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Issue

No. 9 (2008): Historia Constitucional N. 9 (2008)

Section

Spain and Iberoamerica

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