Keywords
state
constitution
individual
law
juridical
property
abortion
United States of America
free expression of personality
freedom
order
security
equality
juridical value
philosophy of law
annotation
paraphrases
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Abstract
In the universe of intellectuals and Colombian thinkers, along with Rufino José Cuervo, Félix Restrepo, S.J., Marco Fidel Suárez, Miguel Antonio Caro, Alberto Lleras Camargo and more recently, professors and jurists such as Rafael Nieto Navia and Hugo Palacios Mejía, the name of one of the most important Colombian philosophers and thinkers appears: Nicolás Gómez Dávila. His contribution to juridical sciences from the philosophical point of view is without question remarkable. With his particular technique of writing by using “escolios” (annotations) in composing in-depth axiomatic, synthetic and analytical pieces of amazing clarity regarding among other topics what law is and means, or in other words what “laws ought to be like,” a profound wisdom and scholarship can be seen and discovered. With this essay (a revision-type essay) we present several paraphrases of the “escolios” (annotations) created by Nicolás Gómez Dávila, one of the most notable Colombian philosophers; hence, his viewpoints and our analytical paraphrases of pivotal concepts of juridical science such as State, Constitution, Laws, Will, Law, Ethics, Democracy, Patriotism, etc., are presented and analyzed, to arrive at and support a conclusion-thesis we have presented on other occasions: the effective law and effective laws are those that are customary.
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