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The author studies the De Lege treatise of Saint Thomas Aquinas (S.Th. I-IIae, qq. 90-108), examining the causes that induced Saint Thomas to write this treatise, as well as the subjects of the community of men regarding God, the rationality of divine law and the connections existing between eternal law, natural law and positive law. In his conclusion he underlines the differences existing between Saint Thomas and Duns Scotus positions regarding the question of natural law.

Canonical divisions of the history of philosophy usually present as drastic the break between Medieval and Modern thinking. One can genuinely ask whether that rupture has not started in the Middle Ages and to what extent many of the elements that characterise the Modernity are already present in that period. In that sense, the article seeks to establish some similarities between Medieval and Modern thinking, particularly the aspects concerning the relationships between the ethical-political thinking of Duns Scotus and some ideas of Hobbes, that, after a detailed study reveal themselves as heirs of Medieval philosophical thinking.